04-27-2005, 02:12 PM
"Tactically speaking I don't see your theory keeping the rain out too well.... "
With all due respect and courtesy to you Kormanus, neither do I. This theory is just not feasible in my own opinion. Just suppose this was indeed a tent folded up and attached to the furca, and that your personal belongings like a spoon, comb, eating utensils, etc., were all wrapped up in your cloak, and a sudden downpour occurs; what are you going to do with all of your little personal belongings? The theory simply doesn't make as much sense nor is it as practical as what has already been pretty much established as fact (at least until some major archaelogical evidence is discovered to prove us all wrong), and that is one thing that the Roman soldiers were...very practical. I still believe that they are intended to represent marching satchels, not folded tent sections.
With all due respect and courtesy to you Kormanus, neither do I. This theory is just not feasible in my own opinion. Just suppose this was indeed a tent folded up and attached to the furca, and that your personal belongings like a spoon, comb, eating utensils, etc., were all wrapped up in your cloak, and a sudden downpour occurs; what are you going to do with all of your little personal belongings? The theory simply doesn't make as much sense nor is it as practical as what has already been pretty much established as fact (at least until some major archaelogical evidence is discovered to prove us all wrong), and that is one thing that the Roman soldiers were...very practical. I still believe that they are intended to represent marching satchels, not folded tent sections.
Lucius Aurelius Metellus
a.k.a. Jeffrey L. Greene
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a.k.a. Jeffrey L. Greene
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