10-13-2002, 07:56 AM
Advancing in silence before giving one good warcry makes good sense. How else could you hear the signals and commands? The warcry was likely shouted at the moment of pilum discharge and it probably sounded more like ARGH! than Venus Victrix or Christus Invictus...judging by the slingstone inscriptions from Perugia there were probably a few less formal interpolations as well...<br>
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Nobody really seems to know when the Barritus got adopted into the main order of battle units but presumably it got really started when Constantine was forming his all-German comitatenses. It would have just got worse after that.<br>
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There are still academics around who insist that the hoplites actually shouted ELELELEU when anybody who watches Xena knows perfectly well it was a good old ululation or war-whoop. These are usually the same guys who insist that the Froggus Graecus really said Brekekekex, koax, koax. They probably also believe in the myth of the Greek Legion 69 Apollinaris, of which the less said the better, and own great tracts of swampland in Florida.<br>
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Eric <p></p><i></i>
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Nobody really seems to know when the Barritus got adopted into the main order of battle units but presumably it got really started when Constantine was forming his all-German comitatenses. It would have just got worse after that.<br>
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There are still academics around who insist that the hoplites actually shouted ELELELEU when anybody who watches Xena knows perfectly well it was a good old ululation or war-whoop. These are usually the same guys who insist that the Froggus Graecus really said Brekekekex, koax, koax. They probably also believe in the myth of the Greek Legion 69 Apollinaris, of which the less said the better, and own great tracts of swampland in Florida.<br>
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Eric <p></p><i></i>
