04-04-2013, 12:20 PM
Alanus wrote:
That reminds me of not only excluding the obvious, but even changing it. The following is from the Rawlinson translation of Herodotus. Herodotus said this about the Massagetae (Book I, 215):
"They fight both on horseback and foot, neither method is strange to them: they use bows and lances, but their favorite weapon is the battle-axe.2"
We then go down to Rawlinson's second footnote:
"2 ...in all probability the kahnjar of modern Persia, a short, curved, double-edged dagger, almost universally worn."
Be carefull with Rawlinson on all acounts. A lot of humbug he believed to have read is still hampering modern reconstructions of ancient warfare, especially on Wiki.
That reminds me of not only excluding the obvious, but even changing it. The following is from the Rawlinson translation of Herodotus. Herodotus said this about the Massagetae (Book I, 215):
"They fight both on horseback and foot, neither method is strange to them: they use bows and lances, but their favorite weapon is the battle-axe.2"
We then go down to Rawlinson's second footnote:
"2 ...in all probability the kahnjar of modern Persia, a short, curved, double-edged dagger, almost universally worn."
Be carefull with Rawlinson on all acounts. A lot of humbug he believed to have read is still hampering modern reconstructions of ancient warfare, especially on Wiki.
