08-30-2018, 12:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-30-2018, 02:09 PM by Nathan Ross.)
Talking of very deep or dense formations, I just came across this, in Frontinus Stratagems II.3.22:
"In the battle against Caesar at Old Pharsalus, Gnaeus Pompey drew up three lines of battle, each one ten men deep, stationing on the wings and in the centre the legions upon whose prowess he could most safely rely, and filling the spaces between these with raw recruits."
That would make an overall formation of thirty ranks deep!
"In the battle against Caesar at Old Pharsalus, Gnaeus Pompey drew up three lines of battle, each one ten men deep, stationing on the wings and in the centre the legions upon whose prowess he could most safely rely, and filling the spaces between these with raw recruits."
That would make an overall formation of thirty ranks deep!
Nathan Ross
