Alas, all too true! Comes with age I guess. And of course a lack of knowledge of the Samnite helmet database.
Quote:We had a similar discussion here and I would like to take the opportunity to point your attention to the possible horns from Vindonissa again (scroll down for pictures).
Still about those same 'Cornuti' helmets! And the images were not of a Roman helmet, so my answers remains the same.
Robert Vermaat MODERATOR FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
In Ioannes Lydus, Cornicularius is at the top of roll in the military administration. The author makes a funny comparison saying that those who in the army fight in the point or in the "horns" of the battle line are so called. Lydus obviously make a mistake, but in the Latin authors the horns of the battle line are the sides of the same line. Would can Cornuti is simply an auxilia specialized in the protection of the sides of the army in the fight?