04-05-2007, 06:02 AM
Also, according to the translation I last read, Polybius says that the Romans had a facing of six feet, not twelve, and that the Greek Pike Phalanx they faced had half that facing [i.e. three feet]. I think Vegetius also gives three feet as a facing (maybe six, I don't recall).
Matthew James Stanham
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