11-24-2008, 10:00 PM
...sorry, some clarification.
Vegetius wrote his De Rei Militaris probably around 390-395 A.D., though some date it later.Some of the manuscripts have a note that the text was revised for the 7th time in Constantinople in the consulate of Valentinian, who must have been Valentinian III, reigning 425-455.He tells us himself that his sources for his 'antiqua Legio' were Cato the Elder, Cornelius Celsus, Frontinus, Paternus and the imperial constitutions of Augustus, Trajan, and Hadrian .
The reference to 'Imperial times' above was the first/second centuries A.D., the era Vegetius seems to be harking back to......
Vegetius wrote his De Rei Militaris probably around 390-395 A.D., though some date it later.Some of the manuscripts have a note that the text was revised for the 7th time in Constantinople in the consulate of Valentinian, who must have been Valentinian III, reigning 425-455.He tells us himself that his sources for his 'antiqua Legio' were Cato the Elder, Cornelius Celsus, Frontinus, Paternus and the imperial constitutions of Augustus, Trajan, and Hadrian .
The reference to 'Imperial times' above was the first/second centuries A.D., the era Vegetius seems to be harking back to......
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
