11-01-2013, 01:51 AM
If anyone has Dennis' translation of the Tactica of Leo VI, I would like to know how he has translated 18.28 (or 18.30, I have two different versions of the same text, where the paragraph in question is differently numbered). The Greek reads :
"Ταύτην δὲ τὴν τάξιν, ἣν προδιεγράψαμεν, ἀντιτάττεται ἁρμοδίως πεζικὴ τάξις ἐπιμελῶς συντεταγμένη καὶ τόπος ὁμαλὸς καὶ γυμνὸς διὰ τὰς τῶν κονταρίων ὁρμάς, καὶ ἡ κατὰ χεῖρα καὶ ταχέως συμπλοκὴ χωρὶς ἀναβολῆς, διὰ τὸ ἀχρείους ἐκ τοῦ ἐγγὺς τὰς βολὰς τῶν σαγιττῶν γίνεσθαι, καὶ μὴ ἔχειν τοὺς τοξότας κοντάρια ἢ σκουτάρια."
and the beginning of the English translation is "The formation we have already described..."
I have a Greek translation that seems to be all wrong, my reading is also problematic (the grammar used allows as I see it some very different interpretations....) and I am unsure about certain issues, so Dennis' reading might help me clarify some things.
"Ταύτην δὲ τὴν τάξιν, ἣν προδιεγράψαμεν, ἀντιτάττεται ἁρμοδίως πεζικὴ τάξις ἐπιμελῶς συντεταγμένη καὶ τόπος ὁμαλὸς καὶ γυμνὸς διὰ τὰς τῶν κονταρίων ὁρμάς, καὶ ἡ κατὰ χεῖρα καὶ ταχέως συμπλοκὴ χωρὶς ἀναβολῆς, διὰ τὸ ἀχρείους ἐκ τοῦ ἐγγὺς τὰς βολὰς τῶν σαγιττῶν γίνεσθαι, καὶ μὴ ἔχειν τοὺς τοξότας κοντάρια ἢ σκουτάρια."
and the beginning of the English translation is "The formation we have already described..."
I have a Greek translation that seems to be all wrong, my reading is also problematic (the grammar used allows as I see it some very different interpretations....) and I am unsure about certain issues, so Dennis' reading might help me clarify some things.
