03-14-2009, 06:45 PM
Quote:There was that image from Vegetius? which showed a weight in the normal position, but wit hwhat looked to me to be spikes on it?Exactly. No, the image you're thinking of is not from Vegetius, but from de Rebus Bellicis:
I think that fits the description, but the logic escapes me..... :?
I think Kolias had the unprovenanced plumbata et tribolata in mind, which I think was the anonymous' own invention. But for what reason Kolias removed the barbed head and added these spikes is beyond me - maybe this looked like a mace that he was thinking of? It does not resemble anything described in a source or found. And yet this was his version of the 'marztobarbulon' described in the Strategicon.
Robert Vermaat
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)