PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Illustrations of history@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago"[The Roman Legion's] drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills." - Flavius Josephus, contemporary Jewish-Roman scholarlemmy.worldimagemessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down11
arrow-up130arrow-down1image"[The Roman Legion's] drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills." - Flavius Josephus, contemporary Jewish-Roman scholarlemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Illustrations of history@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square2fedilink
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months ago“Train hard, fight easy” A sign at every gym, and apocryphally, some Russian Marshal in the 18th century
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoThe Romans, funny enough, would put additional weights on their training equipment to make it heavier than the real deal, so the actual weaponry would feel like a breeze to handle, lmao.
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“Train hard, fight easy”
A sign at every gym, and apocryphally, some Russian Marshal in the 18th century
The Romans, funny enough, would put additional weights on their training equipment to make it heavier than the real deal, so the actual weaponry would feel like a breeze to handle, lmao.