02-17-2012, 06:33 AM
Thanks Jay.
I'm not so sure that I agree with Estiot - on some coins, the weapon is clearly much too long for a plumbata, and probably either a barbed spear or a disfigured plumbatae (or the other way around)? The devil is in the details. :-?
I'm not so sure that I agree with Estiot - on some coins, the weapon is clearly much too long for a plumbata, and probably either a barbed spear or a disfigured plumbatae (or the other way around)? The devil is in the details. :-?
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)