PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Illustrations of history@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago"[The Roman Legion's] drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills." - Flavius Josephus, contemporary Jewish-Roman scholarlemmy.worldimagemessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down11
arrow-up130arrow-down1image"[The Roman Legion's] drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills." - Flavius Josephus, contemporary Jewish-Roman scholarlemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Illustrations of history@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square2fedilink
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 days agoThe Romans, funny enough, would put additional weights on their training equipment to make it heavier than the real deal, so the actual weaponry would feel like a breeze to handle, lmao.
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The Romans, funny enough, would put additional weights on their training equipment to make it heavier than the real deal, so the actual weaponry would feel like a breeze to handle, lmao.