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<blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 245594" data-attributes="member: 1645"><p><strong>Chapter VI -- Revolt and Revenge</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver">A few hundred men managed to fight their way back to the camp, but most of the others, including Generals Sabinus and Cotta, were surrounded and killed in the ambush, fighting to the last man in an <em>orbis</em>, the Roman army's circular formation of last resort.</span></p><p></p><p>Grim image, but the notion of a special, named, last-resort formation sounds like it belongs in a bad <em>anime</em>. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver">That night, the survivors holding the camp, out of ammunition, out of food, and out of hope, entered into a pact, and every man took his own life. In the forest and in the camp, more than eight thousand legionaries died that day.</span></p><p></p><p>I'm not sure what to say. Imagine watching thousands of your friends and allies killed in an ambush. Then imagine being one of a few hundred left -- and knowing you're next.</p><p></p><p>As an aside, "ammunition" always sounds wrong to me when it's not referring to modern gun ammunition.</p><p></p><p>From <a href="http://www.m-w.com/" target="_blank">Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary</a>:</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Main Entry: am·mu·ni·tion </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Pronunciation: "am-y&-'ni-sh&n</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Function: noun</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Etymology: obsolete French amunition, from Middle French, alteration of munition</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Date: circa 1626</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">1 a : the projectiles with their fuses, propelling charges, or primers fired from guns b : CARTRIDGES c : explosive military items (as grenades or bombs)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">2 : material for use in attacking or defending a position <ammunition for the defense lawyers> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Main Entry: mu·ni·tion </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Pronunciation: myu-'ni-sh&n</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Function: noun</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Etymology: Middle French, from Latin munition-, munitio, from munire to fortify, from moenia walls; akin to Latin murus wall and perhaps to Sanskrit minoti he builds, fastens</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Date: 1508</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">1 archaic : RAMPART, DEFENSE</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">2 : ARMAMENT, AMMUNITION</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">- munition transitive verb</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Silver">A messenger galloped back to Cicero with a dispatch from Caesar, written in Greek so the tribesmen couldn't understand it if it fell into the wrong hands.</span></p><p></p><p>I love that little detail.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Silver">But the courier couldn't get through the enemy. So, pretending to be one of the attackers, he joined their next raid against the Roman camp, and threw a javelin with the message tied to it. The javelin lodged in the woodwork of a Roman guard tower and went unnoticed for another two days before a sentry spotted the message, unfurled it, and took it to General Cicero.</span></p><p></p><p>Very cool story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mmadsen, post: 245594, member: 1645"] [b]Chapter VI -- Revolt and Revenge[/b] [Color=silver]A few hundred men managed to fight their way back to the camp, but most of the others, including Generals Sabinus and Cotta, were surrounded and killed in the ambush, fighting to the last man in an [i]orbis[/i], the Roman army's circular formation of last resort.[/Color] Grim image, but the notion of a special, named, last-resort formation sounds like it belongs in a bad [i]anime[/i]. ;) [Color=silver]That night, the survivors holding the camp, out of ammunition, out of food, and out of hope, entered into a pact, and every man took his own life. In the forest and in the camp, more than eight thousand legionaries died that day.[/Color] I'm not sure what to say. Imagine watching thousands of your friends and allies killed in an ambush. Then imagine being one of a few hundred left -- and knowing you're next. As an aside, "ammunition" always sounds wrong to me when it's not referring to modern gun ammunition. From [url=http://www.m-w.com/]Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary[/url]: [Size=1]Main Entry: am·mu·ni·tion Pronunciation: "am-y&-'ni-sh&n Function: noun Etymology: obsolete French amunition, from Middle French, alteration of munition Date: circa 1626 1 a : the projectiles with their fuses, propelling charges, or primers fired from guns b : CARTRIDGES c : explosive military items (as grenades or bombs) 2 : material for use in attacking or defending a position <ammunition for the defense lawyers> Main Entry: mu·ni·tion Pronunciation: myu-'ni-sh&n Function: noun Etymology: Middle French, from Latin munition-, munitio, from munire to fortify, from moenia walls; akin to Latin murus wall and perhaps to Sanskrit minoti he builds, fastens Date: 1508 1 archaic : RAMPART, DEFENSE 2 : ARMAMENT, AMMUNITION - munition transitive verb[/Size] [Color=Silver]A messenger galloped back to Cicero with a dispatch from Caesar, written in Greek so the tribesmen couldn't understand it if it fell into the wrong hands.[/Color] I love that little detail. [Color=Silver]But the courier couldn't get through the enemy. So, pretending to be one of the attackers, he joined their next raid against the Roman camp, and threw a javelin with the message tied to it. The javelin lodged in the woodwork of a Roman guard tower and went unnoticed for another two days before a sentry spotted the message, unfurled it, and took it to General Cicero.[/Color] Very cool story. [/QUOTE]
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