12-21-2009, 07:31 AM
Paralus wrote:
Sorry......I thought you (and everyone else following this) knew that we were referring to the three very similar Hellenistic Tactical manuals that have come to us via Aelian, Asclepiodotus and Arrian. ( see above).The full reference is Arrian "Ars Tactica" IV.
My copy I've had in typescript form for 35 years...... and the name of the translator is not on the typescript! I think it was done by an anonymous Classics professor at Birmingham University (U.K.), and I believe the translation to be a very good one, especially regarding technical terms. Sorry, don't have the Greek ( back then you needed very special equipment to reproduce Greek - this was manual typewriter days !! )
Quote:Yet again no reference: and it is usually myself that is so picked upon for this!
Sorry......I thought you (and everyone else following this) knew that we were referring to the three very similar Hellenistic Tactical manuals that have come to us via Aelian, Asclepiodotus and Arrian. ( see above).The full reference is Arrian "Ars Tactica" IV.
My copy I've had in typescript form for 35 years...... and the name of the translator is not on the typescript! I think it was done by an anonymous Classics professor at Birmingham University (U.K.), and I believe the translation to be a very good one, especially regarding technical terms. Sorry, don't have the Greek ( back then you needed very special equipment to reproduce Greek - this was manual typewriter days !! )
"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
