Aelianus Tacticus

Aeliānus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

The Tactician, a Greek writer on war, about 100 A.D., composed a work dedicated to Trajan on the Greek order of battle, with special reference to Macedonian tactics (Τακτικὴ Θεωρία), which is extant both in its original and in an enlarged form. The original used falsely to be attributed to Arrian. See Köchly, De Libris Tacticis (1852)....

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Aelianus Tacticus in Wikipedia

Aelianus Tacticus (Ancient Greek: Αιλιανός Τακτικός) was a Greek military writer of the 2nd century, resident at Rome. Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled "On Tactical Arrays of the Greeks" (Περί Στρατηγικών Τάξεων Ελληνικών), is dedicated to Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan,...

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