10-26-2020, 06:15 PM
(10-26-2020, 04:36 PM)Renatus Wrote: It is my belief that Dio or his source did not have the benefit of access to Tacitus' account and accordingly thought that the battle took place on an open battlefield... If that is the forest in question, its role in the battle has been misunderstood.
Yes, that sounds entirely feasible. Most of Dio's description seems to be a generic 'battle piece', but it would make sense if he had tried to integrate the few details he might have heard about, and perhaps misplaced them.
Nathan Ross