10-07-2009, 06:29 PM
We seem to be missing the point . Until we find the 79AD edition of "The Infantry Century in Battle" there are lots of gaps in our knowledge which we have to fill if we are going to mount a display.
Sometimes we can work backwards from later works as with the commands ; sometimes we can list a number of possibilities such as here with saluting.In the end though we need someone or some body to set out what we all do and we have cracked the problem. We might disagree but as long as what we adopt is possible then all should accept the decision.
The beneficiaries will be the watching Public ;the event organisers and ultimately ourselves who will have more events and better peripherals.
We have no controlling body so seniority is as good a way of deciding as any other. Until last year I thought cooperation was impossible but Marles ; Xanthen and Namur have given the lie to that and the way is open for further international agreement.
Maybe the initiative should come from event organizers who could insist on agreement to a protocol from all groups as the price for participation.
We do have one big advantage and that is our common language- Latin- which gives us a veneer of authenticity but only if we all react as one to the latin words we use.
One final thought (and here I speak as one who listens to rather than gives commands) if we all adoped emphasis on the last syllable as the execute it would be easier and look better. Latin is wonderful as the imperative gives us the "te" in every case.
Its almost as though it was invented for marching!!
Sometimes we can work backwards from later works as with the commands ; sometimes we can list a number of possibilities such as here with saluting.In the end though we need someone or some body to set out what we all do and we have cracked the problem. We might disagree but as long as what we adopt is possible then all should accept the decision.
The beneficiaries will be the watching Public ;the event organisers and ultimately ourselves who will have more events and better peripherals.
We have no controlling body so seniority is as good a way of deciding as any other. Until last year I thought cooperation was impossible but Marles ; Xanthen and Namur have given the lie to that and the way is open for further international agreement.
Maybe the initiative should come from event organizers who could insist on agreement to a protocol from all groups as the price for participation.
We do have one big advantage and that is our common language- Latin- which gives us a veneer of authenticity but only if we all react as one to the latin words we use.
One final thought (and here I speak as one who listens to rather than gives commands) if we all adoped emphasis on the last syllable as the execute it would be easier and look better. Latin is wonderful as the imperative gives us the "te" in every case.
Its almost as though it was invented for marching!!
Quod imperatum fuerit facimus et ad omnem tesseram parati erimus
