02-16-2004, 11:54 PM
Duncan,<br>
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Sorry not to have seen this earlier. There is no collection of fragments of the Kestoi translated into English. The best 'bits' can be found in the Loeb of Aeneas Tacticus and D. I. Woolliscroft Roman Military Signalling has another fragment. The best text is Vellifrond (Paris, 1932) but that doesn't have all the text (the Wooliscroft passage for instance is only in a 1982 book, in German, on ancient technical knowledge). Sorry I don't have full references at the moment - I'm on hoilday till March 1. If you want the full refs let me know and I'll post them. I have been doing some work of Africanus recently and it seems (according to Vellifrond) that he was with Severus Alexander in the east and recorded some of what he saw.<br>
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Cheers<br>
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Murray <p>It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay Antiquity its due reverence - Erasmus of Rotterdam<br>
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'Modern history, like a deaf man, answers questions no one asks' - Tolstoy War and Peace Ep. ii.1</p><i></i>
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Sorry not to have seen this earlier. There is no collection of fragments of the Kestoi translated into English. The best 'bits' can be found in the Loeb of Aeneas Tacticus and D. I. Woolliscroft Roman Military Signalling has another fragment. The best text is Vellifrond (Paris, 1932) but that doesn't have all the text (the Wooliscroft passage for instance is only in a 1982 book, in German, on ancient technical knowledge). Sorry I don't have full references at the moment - I'm on hoilday till March 1. If you want the full refs let me know and I'll post them. I have been doing some work of Africanus recently and it seems (according to Vellifrond) that he was with Severus Alexander in the east and recorded some of what he saw.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
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Murray <p>It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay Antiquity its due reverence - Erasmus of Rotterdam<br>
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'Modern history, like a deaf man, answers questions no one asks' - Tolstoy War and Peace Ep. ii.1</p><i></i>
Murray K Dahm
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\'\'\'\'No matter how many you kill, you cannot kill your successor\'\'\'\' - Seneca to Nero - Dio 62
\'\'\'\'There is no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will\'\'\'\' - Ammianus Marcellinus 27.7.9
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\'\'\'\'No matter how many you kill, you cannot kill your successor\'\'\'\' - Seneca to Nero - Dio 62
\'\'\'\'There is no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will\'\'\'\' - Ammianus Marcellinus 27.7.9
