04-20-2009, 05:25 PM
Quote:sonic:1akzgd5w Wrote:However, the other part is much clearer. The idea that the Rhine was frozen is not in any of the primary sources .Jona quoted Herodian in my other thread: the Rhine was mentioned as one of the nothern rivers that indeed could freeze over and allow cavalry across them.
I agreed with that in my post; "I would never blame Gibbon in any way shape or form. After all, he only suggested it as a possibility, probably based on evidence that the Rhine does sometimes freeze", and suggested it as a reason for Gibbon's theory. Yet although the Rhine could freeze, that does not mean that it did in the winter of 406. :wink:
Ian (Sonic) Hughes
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"I have described nothing but what I saw myself, or learned from others" - Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
"I have just jazzed mine up a little" - Spike Milligan, World War II