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

in his time it was thought that Hadrian wrote the book on " Tadtics", which,
having for a long time remained unknown, was found in the reign of
Anastasius I. (a.d. 430518), and published by Maurice or Orbicius, who
added something thereto.
Arrian (b. circa a.d. 90), a Greek historian and philosopher, was the
author of the ** Tfxyii\ Tuxrixn ", an abridged account of the military art as
practised among the Greeks of his own day. It is one of the most trustworthy
sources of information concerning ancient tallies that we possess.
Guischardt highly commends this fragment, which was published for the first
time by SchefFer, Upsalias, 1664, 8°, with Greek and Latin texts, and with
notes. According to Brunet, this edition was reissued at Amsterdam, 1750,
with a new title-page. There is an Italian translation by Racchetti, Milano,
1807, 8°, and a French translation by Guischardt' (" Memoires Militaires",
1758, fol.).
Hero the Elder (^circa a.d. 130-200), a Greek mathematician of
Alexandria, living at the time of the Antonines, was a disciple
of Ctesibius.
The treatise put forth by Hero under the title " Ctesibii Belopoica " perhaps
incorporates a work of Ctesibius. It was printed, Augsburg, 16 16, 4^*, by
Baldi, with the Latin translation ; also in Thevenot's and Wescher's collections,
with the treatise entitled '* X£»po|3«xXio-Tpaf p^arao-xfiiii xat o-u/xjusrpi'a"
(" De construdlione et mensura manubalistae"), which is Hero's own. It has
been restored,
Paris, 1862 and 1866.
annotated, and translated into French by Prou and Vincent,
PoLY^Nus (circatA.D. 150) dedicated his "Stratagems of War" to the
Emperors M. Aurelius Antoninus and L. Verus. The book, which he calls
**
a manual of the science of generalship," is illustrated by means of examples
taken from the most ancient histories and from those of his own time. His
materials were colleded from sources many of which are now lost, so that his
work is an important one, scanty as the details are. The plan of it is much
the same as that of the work by Frontinus.
Printed by Casaubon at Lyons,
1589, 16°, in Greek and Latin; by Maasvicius at Leydea, 1690, 8" (of
which copies are to be found with the date 1691), with a reprint by Mursinna,
Berolini, 1756, 8°.^ But the Preface to the Emperors Antoninus and
Verus in the first book had been printed by Gemistus ("De Gestis Grascorum",
Basilias, 1540, 4°; reprinted by Koraes, Paris, 1809). German translation
of the whole existing text by Seybold, Frankfort, 1793-94. French transla-
*
Danish translation by P. F. Suhm, 1749, 4°'
*
Recent eds. of Leipsig, i860 and 1887, 8°*.
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