Illustrations of history

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"[The Roman Legion's] drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills." - Flavius Josephus, contemporary Jewish-Roman scholar (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Train hard, fight easy"

A sign at every gym, and apocryphally, some Russian Marshal in the 18th century

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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.