Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers with me Murray, your weekly fix of ancient warfare related material to take you away from whatever's happening in your real life.

Although sometimes there are parallels between the ancient world and the up-to-date modern world, as we shall see.

Now, what I do here, as you possibly know, or if you don't, I'm about to tell you, is I get

a question from a viewer, reader, or listener, and I attempt to answer it in 10 minutes.

Sometimes I go over.

Sometimes, very rarely, I'm under time time and I should have spoken for longer.

Very rare I hear that in my life.

You can ask us a question in any way you can, as we'll hear.

You can send me an email.

You can ask a question and a comment on a previous video or podcast.

You can send me a postcard, P-O-box 222, Belfield, NSW-21991, that will get to me.

And you can shout it in the streets.

Shout out, actually, to Richard, who I saw serendipitously standing at the bookshelf next to me.

I was buying a book just this last Thursday, and the man selling the person next to me a book said,

Would you like him to sign it?

I looked across and indeed Richard was buying a copy of my latest Osprey, which was very exciting.

And so I did indeed sign it and I said lovely to meet you in the wild.

So a shout out to Richard when you hear this, Richard.

But that's not the question I'm going to answer today.

You, of course, can back us on Patreon as well, one of three different levels, and you can get a copy of the magazine. Legionary Optio and Centurion are the levels there. Now, this is not that question. This is not that I've got one of those coming up where someone shouted into the wilderness and I heard them, but then they sent me an email just to make sure. No, but this question is really interesting for a whole variety of reasons.

One, because it's based on a mishearing and therefore led the questioner and me down a very

interesting path. This is from Richard in Boston. Hello, Richard.

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