@PugJesusM to Illustrations of historyEnglish • 4 months ago"[The Roman Legion's] drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills." - Flavius Josephus, contemporary Jewish-Roman scholarimagemessage-square2arrow-up131arrow-down11
arrow-up130arrow-down1image"[The Roman Legion's] drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills." - Flavius Josephus, contemporary Jewish-Roman scholar@PugJesusM to Illustrations of historyEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square2
minus-square@PugJesusOPMlinkEnglish7•4 months 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.