Hi everyone and welcome to another ancient warfare answers with me Murray,

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Anyway, now, this question has been sent in by Aaron Friedman, and it's a comment about one of

the earlier podcasts I made.

On your comment about written battle accounts, were empire writings, empire-er writings,

less common, lost to time, or were the generals

less educated than Republican era generals? Ooh, interesting. This was in the context of

talking about the Battle of Mons Groutius, I think, in an earlier podcast where we've only

got Tacitus's account and very few others.

And it's true that for the Roman Empire, you know, we have Tacitus for events of the first century,

not as many as we'd like. He's fragmentary in both his histories and the annales.

We also have the histories of Josephus, who's very good, and then Diocassius, again,

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