Semispathae

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Umm... what do you mean? What did I do on purpose? What is soooo close?

In my Article I discuss the heavy recruitment of Left-Bank and Right-Bank Germanics into Aetius' regular field forces (not as foederati). It's likely that, since this practice goes back as far as the 4th century, use of the Seax became widespread in the Western field forces.

I have the Mik's book right now on loan from Rusty and I have seen several Semispathae in it, but they all date to the 3rd century.