Vegetius (in full, Flavius Vegetius Renatus), a Roman author who about 375 A.D. wrote the famous Epitome Institutionum Rei Militaris, mainly extracted from other authors, which during the middle ages was a supreme authority on warfare.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 444
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