01-28-2005, 08:31 AM
If you read up through this whole thread, you'll find that the existence of specialized marines at all is very much in doubt.<br>
However, the arms and equipment carried by naval personnel can be reconstructed.<br>
From the letter of Claudius Terentianus, crewman on the Alexandrian fleet, 2nd C AD:<br>
"I ask and beg you, father, for I have no one dear to me except you, after the gods, to send to me by Valerius a battle sword, a . . ., a pickaxe, a grappling iron, two of the best lances obtainable, a cloak of beaver skin(?), and a girdled tunic, together with my trousers, so that I may have them, since I wore out my tunic before I entered the service and my trousers were laid away new. And if you are going to send anything, put an address on everything and describe the distinguishing features to me by letter lest any exchange be made en route. And if you write me a letter, address it: “on the liburnian of Neptune.â€ÂÂ
However, the arms and equipment carried by naval personnel can be reconstructed.<br>
From the letter of Claudius Terentianus, crewman on the Alexandrian fleet, 2nd C AD:<br>
"I ask and beg you, father, for I have no one dear to me except you, after the gods, to send to me by Valerius a battle sword, a . . ., a pickaxe, a grappling iron, two of the best lances obtainable, a cloak of beaver skin(?), and a girdled tunic, together with my trousers, so that I may have them, since I wore out my tunic before I entered the service and my trousers were laid away new. And if you are going to send anything, put an address on everything and describe the distinguishing features to me by letter lest any exchange be made en route. And if you write me a letter, address it: “on the liburnian of Neptune.â€ÂÂ
