FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS "MILITARY MATTERS" BOOK TWO The Organization of the Legion Table of Contents | The Library | Next THE PRAEFECT OF THE WORKMEN The legion had a train of joiners, masons, carpenters, smiths, painters, and workmen of every kind for the construction of barracks in the winter-camps and for making or repairing the wooden towers, arms, carriages and the various sorts of machines and engines for the attack or defense of places. They had also traveling workshops in which they made shields, cuirasses, helmets, bows, arrows, javelins and offensive and defensive arms of all kinds. The ancients made it their chief care to have every thing for the service of the army within the camp. They even had a body of miners who, by working under ground and piercing the foundations of walls, according to the practice of the Beffi, penetrated into the body of a place. All these were under the direction of the officer called the prefect of the workmen. Table of Contents | Next Home | The Library | The Temple | Top of Page Site Map Copyright © 1999 - 2011 Sonshi.com. All Rights Reserved.