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The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army (1914) (Hardcover)
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The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army (1914) (Hardcover)
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date:
1914 Original Publisher: Clarendon Press Subjects: Rome History /
Ancient / Rome History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Rome
History / Military / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR
reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be
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can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt:
SECTION III THE USE OF THE AUXILIA FOR WAR AND FRONTIER DEFENCE A
History of the art of war under the Roman Empire ' has not yet been
written, for the simple reason that we do not possess an account by
a good military historian of a single campaign between that of
Thapsus (46 B. c.) and that of Argentorate (357). Josephus does
indeed give a first-hand account of the Jewish war of 66-70, and
took some trouble over military details, but his subject limited
him to siege operations and street-fighting. The most valuable
section in his work is a general sketch of the Roman army and its
organization, and a description of the arrangement of troops on the
march.1 Tacitus, on the other hand, who is forced by his subject to
describe several campaigns, and remains in consequence our chief
authority, cared nothing for the technical side of warfare, and
does nothing more than record, as a rule correctly enough, details
which he found in his sources.2 1 Josephus, Bell. Iud. iii. 5. 2 He
was not, however, an ' unmilitary historian ' in the sense that,
fof instance, Ephoros was. Ephoros made elaborate accounts of
military operations an important feature of his work, although he
was quite lacking in military knowledge (Polybius, xii. 25);
Tacitus never pretends to concern himself with more than the moral
and social aspects of war. The same attitude may be observed both
in Dio and Herodian (ii. 15, 6). This attitude was perfectly
justifiable, since ther...
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