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Roman Strategy and Tactics from 509 to 202 b.c.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

K. W. Meiklejohn
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Greece & Rome , Volume 7 , Issue 21 , May 1938 , pp. 170 - 178
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1938

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page 170 note 1 Nilsson, , J.R.S. xix. 1.Google Scholar

page 171 note 2 Livy, iv. 29.5;cf. Ed. Meyer, , Kleine Schriften, ii, p. 272Google Scholar; Nilsson, , J.R.S. xix. 4.Google Scholar

page 173 note 1 Livy, viii. 8.

page 173 note 2 It is uncertain when cohorts were introduced; possibly in 298 (Frontinus, Strat. i. 6.1), certainly by the end of the Punic War (Polybius, xi. 23.1). See Parker, , Roman Legions, p. 28.Google Scholar In any case the second line was too closely connected with the first to allow of independent manœuvring.

page 174 note 3 This section is heavily indebted to Professor Adcock's masterly reconstruction of the Samnite War in C.A.H. vii. 581 ff. See also for further details Salmon, E. T., J.R.S. xix. 12 ff.Google Scholar