I keep coming across the claim that the Romans would get dogs to carry fire on their backs and send them against cavalry. Apparently it is in Polybius but I can't find it at all (I'm not sure it is real). Any ideas? @amayor @DrJEBall @BretDevereaux?
It sounds kind of like the burning pigs thing in Polyaenus (4.6.3)? Other than that I don't know. I really need to just create a database of crazy ineffective Hellenistic-period gimmick tactics.
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there are also various accounts of fire carried by cattle as a ruse of war...
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... are there?! I need to get hold of your book!
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Yeah it does doesn't it? I can find no source at all so I assume it is an internet fiction - now to hunt the origin of that fiction!
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I can't believe that you haven't already!
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My working book title is "Why Rome Won" not "Why Everyone Else Lost" so documenting gimmick tactics seemed to little benefit.
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