02-22-2010, 11:50 PM
I will add that they may have had shorter broad blade spears . if we think of sicily as the hub of med. trade with spokes going to all points .many types of heavy infantry arms in use at the time are plausable .
Hannibal ad portas ! Dave Bartlett . " War produces many stories of fiction , some of which are told until they are believed to be true." U S Grant