A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...
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Another Edition <strong>of</strong> Second Part.<br />
The Art <strong>of</strong> Embattailing An<br />
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Folio.<br />
The ed. <strong>of</strong> 1629, sent out with a new <strong>and</strong> more lengthy tp,, <strong>and</strong> the fault<br />
in pagination on p. 38 correded. The plates <strong>of</strong> all three eds. are reproduced<br />
from those <strong>of</strong> the French trans, <strong>of</strong> -^lian, " La Milice de Grecs et Romains,"<br />
Paris, 16 1 5, fol.<br />
apies. B.M.; Bod.<br />
Contents. JEWzn is one <strong>of</strong> the most renowned <strong>and</strong> trustworthy <strong>of</strong> the<br />
ancient <strong>military</strong> writers. His work, which is written in a clear <strong>and</strong> concise<br />
style, was held in such estimation by Prince Maurice <strong>of</strong> Nassau that he had<br />
it<br />
translated <strong>and</strong> introduced in<strong>to</strong> the Low Countries, at that time called " the<br />
school <strong>of</strong> war." He treats <strong>of</strong> the organisation, drilling, arming, <strong>and</strong> battle<br />
formations <strong>of</strong> the phalanx j the position <strong>of</strong> cavalry in the field, their number,<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficers, etc. ; <strong>of</strong> chariots <strong>and</strong> elephants j <strong>of</strong> various battle formations both <strong>of</strong><br />
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horse <strong>and</strong> foot ; <strong>of</strong> changing front, wheeling, countermarching, etc., etc.<br />
In Chap. \. occurs the <strong>of</strong>t-quoted list <strong>of</strong> those authors who had written on<br />
ta(Slics before him. He thus enumerates them "<br />
: Concerning Homers<br />
discipline militarie, the works <strong>of</strong> Stra<strong>to</strong>cles <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> Frontinus, a man <strong>of</strong> Consular<br />
dignity in our time are <strong>to</strong> be read.<br />
jEneas perfedled the Theorie there<strong>of</strong><br />
at large publishing many volumes <strong>of</strong> warfare, which were abridged by Cyneas<br />
the Thessalian. Likewise Pyrrhus the Epirote wrote Tadlicks, <strong>and</strong> his<br />
son Alex<strong>and</strong>er, <strong>and</strong> Clearchus, <strong>and</strong> Pausanias, <strong>and</strong> Euangelus, <strong>and</strong> Polybius<br />
. . . <strong>and</strong> E<strong>up</strong>olemus <strong>and</strong> Iphicratesj Possidonius also the S<strong>to</strong>ick set forth y<br />
the art <strong>of</strong> warre, <strong>and</strong> many other, some in<br />
large Tadtick volumes.<br />
Introdu6lions, as Brion, some in<br />
All which, I have seene <strong>and</strong> read, <strong>and</strong> yet thinke it<br />
not much <strong>to</strong> purpose <strong>to</strong> mention particularly ; being not ignorant, that it<br />
hath beene the manner <strong>of</strong> those writers for the most part, <strong>to</strong> apply their<br />
style not <strong>to</strong> the ignorant, but <strong>to</strong> such as are already acquainted with the<br />
matters they intreat <strong>of</strong>."<br />
Eds.—Besides the collefted Gr. <strong>and</strong> Lat. eds. given in No. 3, there are<br />
the following separate eds. : Venetiis, 1552, 4" (two in Gr.) ; Lugduni, 1613,<br />
4° (Gr. <strong>and</strong> Lat.) j Fr. trans., Paris, 16 15, fol. j Ital. trans., Vinegia, 1551, 8".<br />
Another <strong>English</strong> trans., by Viscount Dillon (London, 18 14, 4"), containing<br />
also an extrafl from Polybius on the <strong>military</strong> institutions <strong>of</strong> the Romans ;<br />
<strong>and</strong> an account <strong>of</strong> the<br />
from a <strong>military</strong> point <strong>of</strong> view.<br />
principal his<strong>to</strong>rians, ancient <strong>and</strong> modern, considered<br />
89. Sixteen-sixteen. Bingham, John.<br />
The Exercise <strong>of</strong> the Enghsh in the seruice <strong>of</strong> the high <strong>and</strong><br />
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