Aelianus Tacticus
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Aelianus Tacticus, also known as Aelian, was a Greek military writer who lived in Rome.
In hoc codice continentur Helianus De instruendis aciebus et Onosander De optimo imperatore, c. 1480, by Aelianus Tacticus
Arrian
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Arrian, also known as Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Greek historian, public servant, military commander, and philosopher of the Roman period.
Aelianus Tacticus
…it was written, is lost. Critics of the 18th century — Guichard Folard and the Prince de Ligne — were unanimous in thinking Aelian greatly inferior to Arrian, but Aelian exercised a great influence both on his immediate successors, the Byzantines, and later on the Arabs, (who translated the text for their…
Unidentified Roman portrait bust, sometimes labeled as Arrian
Alexandri anabasis, 1575