03-17-2014, 10:37 PM
My reading of Vegetius is that he regarded the legion as being largely unchanged until comparatively recent times. Accordingly, he may have believed that the two bladed weapons carried by legionaries had always been the spatha and the semispathium.
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)
