12-05-2007, 11:36 PM
Quote:Maybe it was not an original advice, but it was never followed - Germanic and even Gothic troops continued to be part of the regular army...Maybe this advise was simply a bad one because it had become impossible to organize a large army without Germannic warriors, which may have been cheaper. I do not know. What I do know, however, is that those Germans were not necessarily unreliable.
Meanwhile, Bill has added Bootes (and several other constellations that were not known to the ancients) to Allen's Star Names.
