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formations of the Persians, Turks, etc. Bk. XII. On points appertaining
to a battle. Leo VI. may be said to have built up his work on this ; he has
borrowed the whole of Bk. II. First printed by Scheffer, with Arrian's
*'Tadics", Upsalias, 1664, 8**, Greek and Latin.
Leo VI., Emperor of the East (a.d. 866-912), wrote a famous book on
tadics. He has been accused by Guischardt of borrowing from Onosander
without acknowledgment,* and, by a translator of Vegetius, of copying from
Julius Africanus ; and there is no denying that he took extensively from the
" Strategica " of Maurice.^ Leo's work is, however, of the greatest value
his explanations, especially concerning battle formations, are well given, and
on this point he has supplied us with information to be met with in no other
writer. A Latin translation by Sir John Cheke, Basle, 1554,
1595,
16°; Basle,
12°; and Leyden, 1612, 4° (with the Greek text of Meursius), reissued,
ibid., 16 13, and reprinted, 1741, fol. Italian translation, by Pigafetta,
Venice, 1602, 4°. French translation, by Joly de Maizeroy, Paris, 1771,
8°.^
CoNSTANTiNE VII. (a.d. 9i5-959)> son of Leo VI., is supposed about
A.D. 951 to have re-edited one of his father's treatises. His own treatise,
entitled "Iltpt Qt[Axruv*\ was printed Leyden, 1588, 8**; Paris, 1609, 8";
and by Banduri, Paris, 171 1, and Venice, 1729, fols. All have Latin
translations.
Hero the Younger (circa a.d. 950), also called Mechanicus, or of
Byzantium, made a compilation on machines of war from the writings of
Athenaeus, Bito, Hero the Elder, and ApoUodorus. It is in two parts, (i)
On preparations for a defence,
and (2) Examples from history to illustrate
the first part, taken from Polybius, Arrian, Josephus, and others.
The first
part is of particular value, being derived from the lost writings of ^neas
and Philo. First printed in a Latin translation by Barozzi, Venice, 1572,
4**; afterwards by Thevenot and by Wescher, and in Harles' edition of
Fabricius. Re-edited by T. H. Martin, Paris, 1854. French translation by
E. Caillemer (« Proc. Soc. d'Emulation ", 1872).
Nicephorus Phocas, afterwards Emperor of the East (reigning a.d.
963-969), wrote a treatise, " Tltpi napa^po/x») IIoXejuov" (De VelitationeBellica),
on Outposts and Frontier operations mainly in Asia Minor. Printed for the
*
"Memoires Militaires ", vol. ii., p. 51.
'
Maizeroy, " Institutions Militaires de TEmpereur Leon." Pref., p. xlvi.
'
Another French translation, by Liskenne and Sauvan, Paris, 1851. A German translation,
Wien, 1 78 1, 8°. For remarks on Maurice and Leo, see "History of the Art of
War", by Charles Oman, London, 1 898, 8°, bk. iv., chaps, i.-iii.
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