05-05-2007, 06:29 PM
Quote:hoplite14gr:1f6ymwfe Wrote:They quote Appian and Polybios about the Bythinians in Nicoplolis (47 BC) but they are not specific.For the battle of Nicopolis (47 BC), see [Caes.], BAlex. 36-41 (no mention of phalanx or pikes, as far as I can see).
(I don't think Appian records the battle of Nicopolis, does he? And Polybius, of course, was long dead by 47 BC.)
Yep, I checked them out yesterday. Appian doesn't even mention the battle, but only briefly talks about Mithridates' final battle in a roundabout way, while Polybius cuts off his coverage at 146 BC (as you say, he obviously couldn't be writing in the first century BC...). Plutarch mentions it, but in his coverage no Bithynians and no phalanxes are mentioned.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
