[split] Distances between files and ranks

[Nathan Ross]

Thanks for splitting the threads, Robert!

Renatus wrote:

It describes an essentially text-book array.
 
How can you be so sure?

Because that's how it reads.

I would guess that, as Livy was not an eyewitness of the mid Republican army, he must have read this description of it - which means that somebody must have written it down - even if not in a text book as such!