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Good point. I fully agree with your sentiments.
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I've just read the thread on the need for a 'dictionary of terms'. Although, due to time restrictions, I couldn't act as coordinator, I wouldn't mind being involved as a contributor.
This would be especially useful in linking earlier terms with their later equivalent. For example, the earlier 'testudo' formation had its later equivalent in the 'fulcum', but most people I've spoken to believe that the 'testudo' went out of use sometime in the third-fourth centuries!!
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Quote:This would be especially useful in linking earlier terms with their later equivalent. For example, the earlier 'testudo' formation had its later equivalent in the 'fulcum', but most people I've spoken to believe that the 'testudo' went out of use sometime in the third-fourth centuries!!
The fulcum is to be compared to the testudo, but not the same. The fulcum is never advocated in siege use, while in both forms in which it occurs, it's a battlefield formation. So you might say that the testudo (a mobile formation in which a smaller number of men is covered by scuta on front, top and both sides), does not survive as a formation after the 3td c. or so?
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Quote:sonic:1yf89bxp Wrote:This would be especially useful in linking earlier terms with their later equivalent. For example, the earlier 'testudo' formation had its later equivalent in the 'fulcum', but most people I've spoken to believe that the 'testudo' went out of use sometime in the third-fourth centuries!!
The fulcum is to be compared to the testudo, but not the same. The fulcum is never advocated in siege use, while in both forms in which it occurs, it's a battlefield formation. So you might say that the testudo (a mobile formation in which a smaller number of men is covered by scuta on front, top and both sides), does not survive as a formation after the 3td c. or so?
I didn't say exact replica/continuation, but equivalent! :lol: Yet, even these two posts suggest the need for such a database, since 'exact' definition/clarification could be possible and act as a spur to further discussion etc.
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Guys, take it into a separate topic please or you'll both be designated coordinator! :wink:
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Can I co-ordinate the co-ordinators, or would that be over co-ordination which would, of course, have to be co-ordinated :lol:
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Jasper whatever I can do to help.
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I would certainly help with the helmet database Jasper.
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Ok, I've been assigning special ranks, so it's for all to see who's coordinating a section on the main site (it's the guys with green wreaths). So who's taking the lead on the pugio database?
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Quote:So who's taking the lead on the pugio database?
Ok, we're getting cornered here :-P P
Crispvs, how about you? I think you'd be qualified best here. If you can't/won't for whatever reason, I'll do it instead.
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I will say a tentative 'yes' and nervously accept the rank, although I think it will mean something of a sharp learning curve in computer operation for me (I'm not really frightened of computers, really).
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So be it. Check your email for first steps on the curve. :wink:
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Quote:I will say a tentative 'yes'
Bravo and congratulations! I'll back you up as good as I can!
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Yeeee-haaaa.
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...this may be too late.... but what about a gladius/spatha/scabbard image database? Seems to be a lot of images/info out there, and many questions regularly appearing on the board?
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