08-15-2007, 05:15 PM
Quote:Hey PMBardunias, can you add your real name to your signature? Thanks!
I think I have done so successfully, we'll soon see. :lol:
I thank you all, but I think some of you are misunderstanding the formation I am describing. It is not the testudo you have pictured, with one shield held vertical and the other horizontal over head. It seems to consist of a line of at least two shields overlapping, both held vertically. The top resting on the boss beneath it. Elsewhere the author seems to describe a closed fomation where shields overlapped laterally shield edge to shield boss- which seem difficult with the more hemicylindrical scutii. This would look like a barrel tiled roof.
If any of you have a friend and a pair of scuttii, try this and see what happens.
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
