11-04-2007, 03:08 AM
Hmm, okay, I see what you're saying. But I can think of several foreign battles or wars for every civil war from the time of Marius through Vespasian. And then there was a stretch from there up through, what, Marcus Aurelius at least? --with no civil wars. (Don't know my later details very well, sorry!)
If you go back into the earlier Republic, there was a lot of fighting in Italy against folks like the Samnites, who were equipped basically the same as the Romans. So you could say that all their gear developed to fight their own style of weapons and combat. But.... but I think I've lost my train of logic! I still don't think anything during the Empire shows that fighting other Romans had any real effect on their gear.
Matthew
If you go back into the earlier Republic, there was a lot of fighting in Italy against folks like the Samnites, who were equipped basically the same as the Romans. So you could say that all their gear developed to fight their own style of weapons and combat. But.... but I think I've lost my train of logic! I still don't think anything during the Empire shows that fighting other Romans had any real effect on their gear.
Matthew
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