11-28-2013, 02:42 PM
Mark wrote:
What does appear unusual in the Roman deployment, however, is that it seems the actual Roman elements deployed on the right and the Socii on the left, as opposed to the far more normal system of Roman legions in the centre and Socii on the wings and this may have had an effect.
Is this the Penguin translation you are using? Because if it is, I have been informed the Penguin translation badly mishandled this section and gives the impression the right consisted of the Roman legions and the left, the allied legions. This is what I was given by a translator. Livy's Latin says:
in dextro cornu (on the right wing)
id erat flumini propius (that was next to the river)
Romanos equites locant, deinde pedites (they placed the Roman cavalry, then foot soldiers)
laevum cornu extremi (on the left wing, on the end)
equites sociorum, intra* pedites (the allied cavalry, then* foot soldiers) *literally 'inside', meaning between the cavalry and the centre
ad medium iuncti legionibus Romanis ([these] joined onto the Roman legions in the centre)
So we have the Romans in the centre. Just thought I’d pass on some of the “secret” information to you Mark.
Steven
What does appear unusual in the Roman deployment, however, is that it seems the actual Roman elements deployed on the right and the Socii on the left, as opposed to the far more normal system of Roman legions in the centre and Socii on the wings and this may have had an effect.
Is this the Penguin translation you are using? Because if it is, I have been informed the Penguin translation badly mishandled this section and gives the impression the right consisted of the Roman legions and the left, the allied legions. This is what I was given by a translator. Livy's Latin says:
in dextro cornu (on the right wing)
id erat flumini propius (that was next to the river)
Romanos equites locant, deinde pedites (they placed the Roman cavalry, then foot soldiers)
laevum cornu extremi (on the left wing, on the end)
equites sociorum, intra* pedites (the allied cavalry, then* foot soldiers) *literally 'inside', meaning between the cavalry and the centre
ad medium iuncti legionibus Romanis ([these] joined onto the Roman legions in the centre)
So we have the Romans in the centre. Just thought I’d pass on some of the “secret” information to you Mark.
Steven
