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

your weekly escape into ancient warfare related material to get away from whatever's happening in your everyday life.

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back us at Patreon at one of three different levels. Today's question is from Cleo's painting bench.

Would like to ask a question, if possible, what do you think are the most visually distinct

and impressive ancient warfare armies outside of the ones most audiences would know? We'll get to

that in a minute. Firstly, though, I've got an addendum, which is unusual. I don't think I've had an

addendum before.

A previous ancient warfare answers was on the disappearance of the 9th Legion, and I

waxed lyrical about how I thought that it could be that the 9th Legion and the 22nd Legion

were both lost in 161 at the beginning of Lusseveris's path in war.

Now, my rabbit hole didn't end.

And of course, one of the things there is that we have Lucian and Dio, Cassius Dio,

telling us about the annihilation of a legion or an army,

but we don't have anyone telling us about the loss of legions, plural, or two legions.

Aha, but we do.

So I was reading, again, as you do sometimes, the biography of Lucius Verus in the Historia

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