A 5th Century training manual for the organization, weapons and tactics of the Roman Legions. Vegetius's "De Re Militari" was the only major work of Roman milit

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Concerning Military Matters ("De Re Militari" in Latin), is a treatise by the late Latin writer Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus about Roman warfare and militar