05-12-2002, 12:19 PM
Salve,<br>
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What you are probably referring to is the description of the bodyguard of Antiochus Epiphanes in Jospehus, <i> BJ</i> 5.460-465 (<i> ...kai peri hauton stiphos Makedonoon kaloumenon, hèlikas pantas, hypsèlous, oligon hyper antipaidas, ton Makedonikon tropon hooplismenous te kai pepaideumenous...</i> '...and around himself a unit said to be of Macedonians, all of military age, tall, only just adults, armed and trained in the Macedonian manner...'). Roman styles of armament and training had long influenced the Hellenistic armies and part of the auxiliaries at least would have been armed in the Roman fashion. Several states had fielded 'imitation legionaries' and copied the Roman model. The <i> legiones vernaculae</i> raised by Deiotarus were eventually merged into a regular unit and became part of the reformed imperial army.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Sander van Dorst<br>
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PS do you have the ISBN number of that book?<br>
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What you are probably referring to is the description of the bodyguard of Antiochus Epiphanes in Jospehus, <i> BJ</i> 5.460-465 (<i> ...kai peri hauton stiphos Makedonoon kaloumenon, hèlikas pantas, hypsèlous, oligon hyper antipaidas, ton Makedonikon tropon hooplismenous te kai pepaideumenous...</i> '...and around himself a unit said to be of Macedonians, all of military age, tall, only just adults, armed and trained in the Macedonian manner...'). Roman styles of armament and training had long influenced the Hellenistic armies and part of the auxiliaries at least would have been armed in the Roman fashion. Several states had fielded 'imitation legionaries' and copied the Roman model. The <i> legiones vernaculae</i> raised by Deiotarus were eventually merged into a regular unit and became part of the reformed imperial army.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Sander van Dorst<br>
<br>
PS do you have the ISBN number of that book?<br>
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