Lord Frederick Leighton Leighton Music Lesson painting

Lord Frederick Leighton Leighton Music Lesson painting
Raphael The Sistine Madonna painting
framed or pfreim. He suggests "favelin". But I have not adopted the suggestion, as I have gratefully adopted others of his, because I need "javelin" for pilum, the regular missile weapon of the disciplined Roman infantryman and "assegai" is more savage sounding. "Assegai" has had a three-hundred year currency in English and acquired new vigour in the nineteenth century because of the Zulu wars. The long-shafted iron-hea framea was used, according to Tacitus, both as a missile and as a stabbing weapon. So was the assegai of the Ama Aaro warriors, with whom the Germans of Claudius's day had culturally much in common. If Tacitus's statements, first as to the handiness of the frames at close quarters, and then as to its unmanageability among trees
William Bouguereau Biblis painting
are to be reconciled, Uw Germans probably did what the Zulus did-they broke off the end of the framed long shaft when hand-to-hand fighting started. But it seldom came to that, for the Germans always preferred strike-and-run tactics when engaged with the better-armed Roman infantryman.