03-08-2009, 08:50 PM
I like the Comitatus' plumbatae, but I should mention that only very few of the hundred-odd plumbtae known to me have a lead weight that is added to the metal shaft (being the odd one from Olympia with the square weight and the two very narrow-shaped ones from Sisak). By far the most plumbatae show the lead weight on the junction of metal and wood.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)