03-04-2008, 10:57 PM
Oh, dear Robert! I think you are on the wrong thread..... :lol: :lol: :lol:
I can't think off-hand of a specific word for the Hoplites "spear".....it was just "spear" = dory
And I think Hasta was often used as a translation but the two words were not quite synonymous.
"infantry kontos" ? What is that? AFIK, there is no such thing ( and I am reasonably certain until at least until 200AD or later...) - can you produce some unequivocal evidence for such a thing ? :?
I can't think off-hand of a specific word for the Hoplites "spear".....it was just "spear" = dory
And I think Hasta was often used as a translation but the two words were not quite synonymous.
"infantry kontos" ? What is that? AFIK, there is no such thing ( and I am reasonably certain until at least until 200AD or later...) - can you produce some unequivocal evidence for such a thing ? :?
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff