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Roman military training
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Fuck me, I swear to the gods the internet is in decay. Or search engines, at least. Sorry, but I can't find where I read it, in part because 90% of the fucking results for primary sources anymore aren't the easy online versions that used to exist, but all fucking paywalled or just advertisements for translations. If I come across it, I'll be sure to message you. I might paw through my physical (non-primary source) books at some point, but I have no clue which would have mentioned it.
Vegetius's De re militari seems to be somewhat on point, and though in a brief skim and search I couldn't find specific instruction to lean into an attack, this was interesting:
Thanks for that archive link to De Re Militari, btw, I'm saving the webpage as an HTML because of how fucked the internet is getting nowadays. That's the exact site I used to reference it by Back In The Day
The Web has been enshittified beyond belief. The decline of search engines started long ago when the web's overall focus shifted to advertising, but with the advent of "AI" it'll become even more horrible.
No worries, thanks for looking! I'll check out The Strategikon, it sounds interesting.