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M Moravi Horati Piscine wrote:
Sounds interesting enough. From Marius' site I came upon a list of commands used by a certain legion reenactor group. I wondered about those. some seem to come from Livy. "Infer, miles, signum" 6.7.2 "Signifer, statue signum" 5.55.1. Others I am not sure about and would like to find out.
There are six surviving tactical manuals of the historical period we are concerned with [150BC-600AD-Ed.], only three of which are available in English translations.
Onasander wrote in the early 1st century AD and is available in a Loeb translation. Frontinus wrote a manual later in that century which is now lost, but supplemented it with another work Stratagems which is available in a Loeb translation. [...] The next in time are two works by Arrian, Governor of Cappadocia under Hadrian, neither generally available in English. The Tactics is a paraphrase of the work by Asclepiodotus which is published by Loeb bound with Onasander, supplemented by an invaluable section on Roman cavalry training and tactics. The Order of Battle Against the Alans describes columns of march in enemy territory and battle formations against shock cavalry.
Vegetius has been translated and after being out of print for years is now available in an American edition. [...] His book is a confused mixture of current practice and previous methods, so must be read with extreme caution, but is still extremely valuable.
Mauricius' Strategicon is an early-Byzantine work, but offers many insights into previous organization and tactical methods, including descriptions of drill movements to Latin commands. It is not available in English...
I wonder about the role of that sign-bearer
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