[998] P. 421. Pl. xxviii. 15.
[999] The word is the Ang. Sax. dolc, a wound, which thus gave a name to the weapon that wounded.
[1000] Bronze, pp. 261–63. Figs. 329 and 330.
[1001] Germ. 6.
[1002] Jähns (p. 439) quotes Asclepiodotus (vii. 3) and Ælian (xviii. 4), who describe the cuneus as Scythian and Thracian, i.e. barbarous. Unfortunately Jähns also cites the ‘Boar’s head’ of the Laws of Menu (Houghton’s Manava-Dharma Shastra, vii. 187), in the eighth century b.c.; Menu being centuries after Tacitus. I have noticed that the disposal of our chessmen shows the Hindú form of attack, the infantry in front, the horse and elephants (castles) on either wing, and the Rajah or Commander-in-chief in the centre and not in front.
[1003] In its purest form the Standard-bearer stood alone at the apex, as Ingo in King Odo’s battle at Mons Panchei (Montpenssier), a.d. 892.
[1004] ‘Quodque præcipuum fortitudinis incitamentum est, non casus, nec fortuita conglobatio turmam aut cuneum facit, sed familiæ et propinquitates’ (Tacit. Germ. 7).
[1005] Nat. Hist., iv. 14.
[1006] In Mario, 23.
[1007] In later times they were carefully cleaned for another object, to show their Runic inscriptions.