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FLAVIUS
VEGETIUS RENATUS BOOK ONE TO BE TAUGHT TO VAULT The ancients strictly
obliged both the veteran soldiers and recruits to a constant practice of vaulting.
It has indeed reached our times, although little regard is paid to it at present.
They had wooden horses for that purpose placed in winter under cover and in summer
in the field. The young soldiers were taught to vault on them at first without
arms, afterwards completely armed. And such was their attention to this exercise
that they were accustomed to mount and dismount on either side indifferently,
with their drawn swords or lances in their hands. By assiduous practice in the
leisure of peace, their cavalry was brought to such perfection of discipline that
they mounted their horses in an instant even amidst the confusion of sudden and
unexpected alarms.
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