A Theory About Vegetius

[Mark Hygate]

Dating Vegetius has vexed many historians. .................

That's interesting - I had not particularly worried about the exact dating of Vegetius before, being more interested in trying to understand the context of the detail he was imparting.

To that end I had blithely accepted the understanding in my translation (Clarke's) that his writings were dedicated to Valentinian II as that seemed to make good sense (given the allusion to Gratian (thus not Valentinian I) and not mentioning the sack of Rome itself, which would surely have been a pretty noteworthy event. :wink:

What could change that?