44 ([return])
[ In the time of Polybius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, (l. v. c. 45,) the steel point of the pilum seems to have been much longer. In the time of Vegetius, it was reduced to a foot, or even nine inches. I have chosen a medium.]
45 ([return])
[ For the legionary arms, see Lipsius de Militia Romana, l. iii. c. 2—7.]
46 ([return])
[ See the beautiful comparison of Virgil, Georgic ii. v. 279.]
47 ([return])
[ M. Guichard, Memoires Militaires, tom. i. c. 4, and Nouveaux Memoires, tom. i. p. 293—311, has treated the subject like a scholar and an officer.]
48 ([return])
[ See Arrian’s Tactics. With the true partiality of a Greek, Arrian rather chose to describe the phalanx, of which he had read, than the legions which he had commanded.]