06-24-2008, 04:37 AM
Quote:Sloppy language; you're right, Marcus and Paralus; sorry 'bout that.
Paullus Scipio -- Hmm? They weren't? New info on that?
I wasn't actually 'picking' on you! Destroyed to man is better viewed as stood their ground to a man. As has been suggested, the wounded may well have died later. In any case, the unit will have, by virtue of the decimation, been virtually destroyed. Twenty-two (likely less) pairs out of 150 no longer a unit makes eh?
There is no evidence that I can adduce that places a "Sacred Band" at Plataea near a century earlier.
Paralus|Michael Park
Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
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Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
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