05-07-2011, 11:27 PM
All those records were saved and transcribed onto wax tablets and put in the Library in Herculaneum for safekeeping in AD 78.
All we know for sure of what Vegetius knew of the "military step" is that it took 3 months for a recruit to learn. But for what it's worth, (and we'll not solve this argument here) every metope that shows soldiers marching on the Adamklissi monument, and practically every coin shows soldiers marching in step. Did they do that all the time? No, certainly not. Were they able to do that when the situation prompted? I believe they were, and that they did.
All we know for sure of what Vegetius knew of the "military step" is that it took 3 months for a recruit to learn. But for what it's worth, (and we'll not solve this argument here) every metope that shows soldiers marching on the Adamklissi monument, and practically every coin shows soldiers marching in step. Did they do that all the time? No, certainly not. Were they able to do that when the situation prompted? I believe they were, and that they did.
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
