03-17-2014, 10:10 PM
Quote:It states that spathium is an uncommon term meaning "spatha".No, it states that spathium is an uncommon genitive plural of spatha.
Quote:If the soldiers of the time of Vegetius would have been equipped with a sword and a shorter sword(like object), there would have been no need to return to the methods of the past (i.e. "two edged weapons, one larger than the other").You misunderstand me; my comment was not just about weaponry. Vegetius' whole treatise is a recommendation to return to the methods of the past. The soldiers of his day may or may not have carried two bladed weapons but he knew that the soldiers of the past did and, accordingly, he gave his soldiers two such weapons but modern ones.
Michael King Macdona
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
