01-22-2017, 12:23 PM
Lionel Casson on page 167 in his book "Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World mentions the phaselus. Sorry I had to do text as a jpg to save the Ancient Greek (I think) as converting it to text did some strange things.
This was the reference on the bottom of the page. 55 Sallust (Hist. 3.8, Maurenbrecher) mentions a cohors una grandi phaselo vecta "a cohort carried in a large phaselus". (a cohort at full strength was 600 men). Casson's translation
This was the reference on the bottom of the page. 55 Sallust (Hist. 3.8, Maurenbrecher) mentions a cohors una grandi phaselo vecta "a cohort carried in a large phaselus". (a cohort at full strength was 600 men). Casson's translation
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Michael Kerr
Michael Kerr
"You can conquer an empire from the back of a horse but you can't rule it from one"
"You can conquer an empire from the back of a horse but you can't rule it from one"
