Marius' Mules Ii: the Belgae
“Military formation in which a century of men closes up in a rectangle and creates four walls and a roof for the unit with their shields.”
“Miles: the Roman name for a soldier, from which we derive the words military and militia among others.”
The early morning light was eerie. Fronto stood on the wall of Bibrax under the shade of a particularly bushy beech tree and tried to make out details of the Belgae on the plain below. The majority of the Belgic army lay encamped to the east of the opp...idum and it was on that side that their main siege works were being carried out. With the sun about to climb, watery and pale, above that horizon, the mass of enemy warriors below was hard to make out in the shadowy gloom.
Clicking his tongue in irritation, he reminded himself that the longer his own men got to rest before the inevitable, the better, so long as it wasn’t more than an hour. Then the timing would be really tight. He turned and looked down inside the walls. Here shade cast by the buildings and trees left the defenders still sitting in virtual darkness, lit by burning torches spaced periodically around the circumference of the oppidum.MoreLess
“Miles: the Roman name for a soldier, from which we derive the words military and militia among others.”
The early morning light was eerie. Fronto stood on the wall of Bibrax under the shade of a particularly bushy beech tree and tried to make out details of the Belgae on the plain below. The majority of the Belgic army lay encamped to the east of the opp...idum and it was on that side that their main siege works were being carried out. With the sun about to climb, watery and pale, above that horizon, the mass of enemy warriors below was hard to make out in the shadowy gloom.
Clicking his tongue in irritation, he reminded himself that the longer his own men got to rest before the inevitable, the better, so long as it wasn’t more than an hour. Then the timing would be really tight. He turned and looked down inside the walls. Here shade cast by the buildings and trees left the defenders still sitting in virtual darkness, lit by burning torches spaced periodically around the circumference of the oppidum.MoreLess
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