(12-13-2022, 02:10 PM)dadlamassu Wrote: 3. In the TV documentary one historian (cannot remember her name) said that in describing the battlefield the word Tacitus uses for "defile(s)" is plural. Can anyone say if this is correct? If it is then it will affect my interpretation of how SP managed his battle space.
that would be Margaret Hughes, detailed in her book:
https://www.history.org.uk/historian/res...nd-the-log
I have no view on the plural, either through text nor strategy. The multiple was used by Rob Bell in a segue to Church Stowe and is errrmmm... something of an edit from any exchange I recall on the day.... I don't see the plural or that really matters in the way Mancetter are trying to use it. The ravines there (IMHO) are not of a consequential scale and do little for communications in order to synchronise an eruption....
Renatus had a view on the Latin I think...
PS for whom are you volunteering?
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