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Ox-powered Roman paddle wheel boat from a 15th-century copy of De Rebus BellicisA four-wheeled ballista drawn by armored horses, from an engraving illustrating the 1552 editio princeps of De Rebus Bellicis
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De rebus bellicis ("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 Constantine I in 337 (it is explicitly stated that Constantine was dead when the work was written) and before the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476. Some researchers suggest that it may refer to the Battle of Adrianople of 378 (it refers to the serious threat posed by the barbarian tribes to the empire), or even the death of Emperor Theodosius I 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 Honorius and Arcadius after the death of Theodosius.
Derebusbellicis ("On the Things of Wars") is an anonymous work of the 4th or 5th century which suggests remedies for the military and financial problems...
weapons — Vegetius, De re militari, 1.17 A second source, also from the late 4th century, is an anonymous treatise titled Derebusbellicis, which briefly...
1200 yards (1,100 m). The weapon was named ballista fulminalis in Derebusbellicis: "From this ballista, darts were projected not only in great number...
means of propulsion comes from the 4th–5th century military treatise DeRebusBellicis (chapter XVII), where the anonymous Roman author describes an ox-driven...
This at least is a reasonable interpretation of the rather enigmatic Derebusbellicis section 12-14. In the northern Sahara nomadic tribes called Pharusii...
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus' De Re Militari (4th century), or military technology, such as Derebusbellicis (4th to 5th century). Some early testimonies...
propulsion comes from the fourth– or fifth-century military treatise DeRebusBellicis (chapter XVII), where the anonymous Roman author describes an ox-driven...
four-wheel cart with a mounted ballista, as described in the book DeRebusBellicis. Many scholars do not have an opinion about this problem, due to scarce...
NY: Canisius College, 2009. Online at De Imperatoribus Romanis. Retrieved 15 August 2009. DeRebusBellicis (On Military Matters) fourth/fifth century...
Κωνσταντινοπόλεως, a 10th‑century topography of Constantinople The Anonymus deRebusBellicis, author of a Late Antique work on warfare The Anonymus Ανταττικιστης...
propelled by animals has been discovered. The work known as Anonymous Derebusbellicis describes a ship powered by oxen. Wherein oxen are attached to a rotary...
video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and is voiced by Brian Blessed. Derebusbellicis L. White, Kyeser's "Bellifortis": The First Technological Treatise...
water wheel can be found in 4th century Roman literature "Anonymus DeRebusBellicis". Though impractical, there is no reason why it could not work and...
Carolingian compilation containing notably the Notitia Dignitatum and Derebusbellicis. The initials in this manuscript are by others. The miniatures are...
Ortells Pérez, Catálogo de obras impresas en el siglo XVII de la Biblioteca Histórica de la Universitat de València, Universidad de Valencia, 2005, p. 1118...
des Anonymus Derebusbellicis (Social Criticism in Late Antiquity: Investigations of the Reform Proposals of the Anonymus Derebusbellicis) (= Vestigia...
by André Fourçans. Leduc.s éd. ISBN 978-2-84899-369-0. Anonymous. Derebusbellicis (in Latin). Rigby, Stephen H. (2015). Justifying Inequality: Peasants...
De RebusBellicis Rerum historicarum patriae suae libri octo De claris legum interpretibus (in Latin). Venice: Marco Antonio Brogiollo. 1637. De claris...
Nationale de Belgique, vol. 16 (Brussels, 1901), 15-16. De iure et officijs bellicis, et disciplina militari (1597) on Google Books. Derebus Peruanis...
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