02-25-2010, 06:58 AM
D. Campbell wrote:
..I am happy to say I agree entirely with Duncan - our only written source for this is De Metatione Castrorum once ascribed to Hyginus, but now usually referred to as "pseudo-Hyginus". While it seems to be a compendium of practices from previous times, much of it can be confirmed from Archaeology going right back to the practices in the time of Polybius ( e.g. at Numantia). Each tent occupied roughly ten feet, and the tents were built around a large "common area" ( conservantibus) in a "u" shape. ( This varied in size depending on the time).According to 'Pseudo-Hyginus', in front of each tent was an area 5 ft deep, called the arma, used primarily for the storage of arms and armour ( there was no room in the tent, which could only sleep six of the men at a time - the other two being 'on duty'), and beyond this an area 9 ft deep, as Duncan says, called the Iumenta (lit; pack-animals). Livy also mentions the practice of tethering animals (XXVI.6.), when enemy elephants get into the camp, and the animals panic and break their tethers.
Quote:In Hyginus' marching camp, each tent has a 9 x 10 foot area in front, iumentis ("for the pack mules")
..I am happy to say I agree entirely with Duncan - our only written source for this is De Metatione Castrorum once ascribed to Hyginus, but now usually referred to as "pseudo-Hyginus". While it seems to be a compendium of practices from previous times, much of it can be confirmed from Archaeology going right back to the practices in the time of Polybius ( e.g. at Numantia). Each tent occupied roughly ten feet, and the tents were built around a large "common area" ( conservantibus) in a "u" shape. ( This varied in size depending on the time).According to 'Pseudo-Hyginus', in front of each tent was an area 5 ft deep, called the arma, used primarily for the storage of arms and armour ( there was no room in the tent, which could only sleep six of the men at a time - the other two being 'on duty'), and beyond this an area 9 ft deep, as Duncan says, called the Iumenta (lit; pack-animals). Livy also mentions the practice of tethering animals (XXVI.6.), when enemy elephants get into the camp, and the animals panic and break their tethers.
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
