Vegetius

But either view contradicts the basic classical principle enunciated by Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus in the late Roman Empire:

Deathride John Mosier 2010

But either view contradicts the basic classical principle enunciated by Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus in the late Roman Empire:

Deathride John Mosier 2010

Howsoever, pure water is best, and which (as Pindarus holds) is better than gold; an especial ornament it is, and very commodious to a city (according to [2908] Vegetius) when fresh springs are included within the walls, as at Corinth, in the midst of the town almost, there was arx altissima scatens fontibus, a goodly mount full of fresh water springs: if nature afford them not they must be had by art.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Vegetius and rural writers have not left so many medicines in vain against the coughs of cattle; and men who perish by coughs die the death of sheep, cats, and lions: and though birds have no midriff, yet we meet with divers remedies in Arrianus against the coughs of hawks.

Letter to a Friend 2007

Some are wise, subtile, witty; others dull, sad and heavy; some big, some little, as Tully de Fato, Plato in Timaeo, Vegetius and Bodine prove at large, method. cap.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Though Pisan mostly just cribbed Vegetius anyway, as every other military writer of her era did.

Miss Snark reviews my synopsis Carla 2006

Long before Clausewitz, the Roman writer Vegetius put it neatly: Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.

Philocrites: December 2002 Archives 2002

Vegetius, too, says (De Re Milit. iii) that "the less a man knows of the pleasures of life, the less he fears death."

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

[48] A wedge is described by Vegetius (iii. 19,) as a body of infantry, narrow in front, and widening towards the rear; by which disposition they were enabled to break the enemy's ranks, as all their weapons were directed to one spot.

The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus

He was afterwards placed at the school of St Paul's; and it was there that he first discovered, on reading Vegetius, that his bent of mind was decidedly for the military life.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various