Hi everyone and welcome to ancient warfare answers.

It's me, Murray, on my own again, answering a question of yours for the Ancient Warfare

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the magazine digitally or in print this mess this question is from Mason we've asked it a couple

of his answered a couple of his questions before if Romans were fighting and happened to get

surrounded did they have a formation for that? Did the back line and sides turn around

and form a square, not a full legion, of course, implying this is on a relatively small scale?

So the answer is yes, they did indeed have a formation for that, but it's also much less doctrinal.

You remember an answer I had before about orthopraxia and orthodoxy.

So there's not necessarily a doctrine for what to do when you get surrounded in Roman warfare.

But there is some practicalities of what you should do.

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