A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...

vention. Printed by Thevenot, but as they are not included in the Minas
MS. they are absent from Wescher's *' Poliorcetique." Book V. is a
treatise on fortification, and the attack and defence of places. A French
translation of Book V., with notes, by A. de Rochas d'Aiglun, printed in
the *'Memoires de la Societe d'Emulation du Doubs", Besan^on, 1872, vol. ii.
Hyginus Gromaticus {circa b.c. 103) introduced a chapter on castrametation
into his book on surveying, which was published separately by
Schryver, Leyden, 1607, 4°; by Hermann Rabod, Amsterdam, 1660,4";
and by Grsevius, Rome, 1694, fol., vol. x., p.
599.'
ViTRuvius, PoLLio (b. ctrca b.c. 80), was personally known to Julius
Csesar, after whose death he was befriended by Augustus, on account of the
services he had rendered the state as a military engineer. Vitruvius commences
his account of machines of war in
Bk. X., chap, xv., of the " Architedura
" with a description of scorpions and catapults ;
the contents of the
other chapters are as follows : Chap. xvi. Of the balistae. Chap. xvii. Of
the proportions of the balistas. Chap, xviii. On the preparation of the
balistae and catapultae. Chap. xix. Of machines for attack, and their invention.
Chap. XX. Of the testudo, prepared for filling ditches. Chap, xxi.
Of other kinds of testudi. Chap. xxii. Of things relative to defence. First
printed Rome, 1486.^
Onosander, the Platonic (circa ist cent, after Christ), wrote on the
" Office of the General." See No. 14.
Apollodorus of Damascus (b. circa a.d. 60), a celebrated archited
and military engineer, dedicated his treatise on " Machines of War " to the
Emperor Trajan. Published by Thevenot and by Wescher.
Frontinus, Sextus Julius (circa a.d. 40-103), besides the "Stratagems
" (see No. 3), wrote another work on the military art, mentioned by
himself and also by ^lian (chap, i.), which is now lost.
iELiANus Tacticus (circa a.d. 100). See No. 88, and for editions
with Vegetius, Frontinus, and Modestus, see No. 3.
Hadrian (a.d. 76-138). Vegetius speaks of the " Constitutiones ", or
laws relating to
military affairs, of Hadrian, placing them side by side with
those of Augustus and Trajan, but it is now generally admitted that these
" Constitutiones " are not the work of Hadrian.^ Tillemont* remarks that
'
An ed. of Leipsig, 1879, 8". German translation, ib., 1887, 8". ' Brunct.
*
M. Georges Doublet, " Notes sur Ics oeuvres littcraircs dc I'Empcrcur Hadricn ",
Toulouse, 1893, 8".
*
"Histoircs dcs Empereurs", Paris, 1700-38, 4% art. xviii.
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