. Archaeologia Graeca; or, The antiquities of Greece. A New ed., to which is added an appendix containing a concise history of the Grecian states and a short account of the lives and writings of the most celebrated Greek authors. so, and Persia, seem tohave been devised after this, or some other square ^. Ef4,ZoXovy rostrum, or cuneus, was a rhombus divided in themiddle, having three sides, and representing the figure of a wedge,or tlje letter A. The design of this form was to pierce, and enterforcibly into the enemys body. KotXif4,^oXov, or forfex, was the cuneus transversed, and wantingthe b
. Archaeologia Graeca; or, The antiquities of Greece. A New ed., to which is added an appendix containing a concise history of the Grecian states and a short account of the lives and writings of the most celebrated Greek authors. so, and Persia, seem tohave been devised after this, or some other square ^. Ef4,ZoXovy rostrum, or cuneus, was a rhombus divided in themiddle, having three sides, and representing the figure of a wedge,or tlje letter A. The design of this form was to pierce, and enterforcibly into the enemys body. KotXif4,^oXov, or forfex, was the cuneus transversed, and wantingthe basis; it represented a pair of sheers, or the letter V ; andseems to have bcen dcsigned to receive the cuneus, nxivdiov, nxtv6ix, luterculus, an army drawn up in the figure of abrick or tile, with four unequal sides ; its length was extendedtovvards ihe enemy, and exceeded the deplh. nvgyo?, turris, was the biick inverted, being an oblong square,after llie lashion of a tower, wiih the small end towards the ene-my. This form is mentioned by Homer ; O/ di Ti Tv^yrlhov (rfixf uvTit a^ruvetvrtf,WJiecling tliemselves into a towerb form. h iElianus Tacticis, qui ubique in hoc capite consulendus. i Iliad. fi,\ v. 45, 1/ // / ;,v. n,. ???,./.,..://Vr v »7, .;—>i7=^ Edinl,ur^,K hy p^y. Srh-lln., ^ Slad. WIB.
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