Caesar's Army: A Study of the Military Art of the Romans in the Last Days of the Republic (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Caesar's Army: A Study of the Military Art of the Romans in the Last Days of the Republic This little book is an attempt to reconstruct Caesar's Army so as to give a clear idea of its composition and evolutions. It is hoped that students of Caesar's writings and students of military science alike may find interest in such a study. The Commentaries of Cmsar are the story of his wars. They are military history. It is true that they were intended largely for civilian readers at Rome. Still, they imply throughout a certain amount of military knowledge that all Roman citizens were supposed to have. The modern student can hardly be said to read understandingly, unless the text conveys to his mind the same idea that it conveyed to the intelligent Roman reader to whom Caesar addressed it. Hence it seems clear that we should at least seek to gain those notions of the military art with which the Roman reader was familiar, and in the light of which Caesar described his campaigns. Many of these facts are entirely lost. Many others we can reach at best only approximately. Our inferences, based some times ou meagre data, may often be erroneous. And yet is it not better to have even such an inadequate idea than no idea at all? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.