03-25-2014, 12:18 AM
Who was it... that's it Symmachus! Symmachus records an instance of transporting (I think it was 9 horses) to Rome for a games and of those, 7 horses died en-route even with several stops along the Spanish, Gallic, and Italic coasts.
AFAIK the Western Roman Empire relied on merchant vessels for troopships between 439-468. Evidently there were still some Liburnians under Aetius (Ricimer used a small fleet to defeat the Vandals off the coast of Corsica; there is no record of new ships being built until 461 under Majorian).
AFAIK the Western Roman Empire relied on merchant vessels for troopships between 439-468. Evidently there were still some Liburnians under Aetius (Ricimer used a small fleet to defeat the Vandals off the coast of Corsica; there is no record of new ships being built until 461 under Majorian).
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