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92: 25: 128: 105: 727: 568: 616:("On the Things of Wars") is an anonymous work of the 4th or 5th century which suggests remedies for the military and financial problems in the Roman Empire, including a number of fanciful war machines. It was written after the death of 596: 54: 589: 374: 270: 186: 162: 774: 328: 582: 248: 662:"Le cose della guerra", Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary by Andrea Giardina, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Arnoldo Mondadori 1989. 759: 754: 738: 632:
in 395, as it uses the plural form of the word "princeps", the title of the emperor, which may refer to the split of the Empire between
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of 378 (it refers to the serious threat posed by the barbarian tribes to the empire), or even the death of Emperor
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in 337 (it is explicitly stated that Constantine was dead when the work was written) and before the fall of the
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S. Reinach, "Un homme à projects du bas-empire", <<Revue archéologique>> XVI 1922, p. 205-265.
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S. Mazzarino, "Aspetti sociali del IV secolo. Ricerche di Storia tardo-romana" (Roma 1951; Milano 2002).
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Zeitkritik in der Spätantike. Untersuchungen zu den Reformvorschlägen des Anonymus De rebus bellicis
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A four-wheeled ballista drawn by armored horses, from an engraving illustrating the 1552
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Decline and Change in Late Antiquity: Religion, Barbarians and their Historiography
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A Roman Reformer and Inventor: Being a new Text of the Treatise
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J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz, "Realism and Phantasy: The Anonymous
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Ox-powered Roman paddle wheel boat from a 15th-century copy of
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in 476. Some researchers suggest that it may refer to the
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O. Seeck, in RE I (1894), s.v. 'Anonymi n. 3', col. 2325.
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