Manual of classical literature : from the German of J.J. Eschenburg, with additions (1855)
Eschenburg, Johann Joachim, 1743-1820, Fiske, N. W. (Nathan Welby), 1798-1847, ed · Philadelphia : E.C. & J. Biddle · leaf 336
e 50 feet wide, extending in the opposite direction.On each side of this last passage, the tents of the cavalry (h) and the triarii (i) werecast; then beyond these tents, on each side, was another passage 50 feet wide, andthen the tents of the principes (k) and hastati (l) ; and after another… … 280 ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. width, termed Via quintana (t) because five maniples were encamped on each sideof it. In each tent there were eleven men, which termed a contuhemium, one of themhaving the oversight of the other ten. Around the tents was a free space 200 feet wide,which was the place of…
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