Julian had a good PR agent making Strasbourg sound like THE GREATEST EPIC BATTLE THAT SAVED THE WESTERN EMPIRE!!!!!
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That's the traditional reading as far as I know and I haven't a good reason to gainsay it. It's tricky, ballistarius isn't a super common word. Vegetius gives them among the levem armaturam (2.2), which would fit with missile troops, but also uses it of artillerymen (3.24).
But then Vegetius also talks about arcuballistae and manuballistae, which certainly *seem* like something like a crossbow. Which might suggest that a non-technical writer like Ammianus might omit a prefix and use the base term.
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I've always wondered if it was an anachronism - that Roman crossbow troops had emerged from the artillery and so remained ballistarii...much like the U.S. First Cavalry Division contains no appreciable number of horses.
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