Note on translations

Where feasible and accepted by scholars, authors use English titles for texts. For the benefit of students and other readers without knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin, the authors quote English translations in the main text, and the original in a footnote (if necessary). Unless otherwise indicated by individual authors, translations of the primary source texts in this book are as follows:

Aelian, Tactics	The Tactics of Aelian (Pen and Sword, Christopher Matthews, translator, Barnsley, 2012)
Aeneas Tacticus, How to Survive under Siege	Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, Onasander (Loeb Classical Library edition, Illinois Greek Club, translator, Cambridge, MA, 1923)
Asclepiodotus, Tactics	Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, Onasander (Loeb Classical Library edition, Illinois Greek Club, translator, Cambridge, MA, 1923)
Frontinus, Stratagems	Frontinus, Stratagems and Aqueducts of Rome (Loeb Classical Library edition, Charles E. Bennett, translator, Cambridge, MA, 1925)
Leo, Tactics	The Taktika of Leo VI (Dumbarton Oaks edition (revised), George T. Dennis, translator, Washington, 2014)
Maurice, Strategikon	Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy (University of Pennsylvania Press edition, George T. Dennis, translator, Philadelphia, 2001)
Onasander, The General	Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, Onasander (Loeb Classical Library edition, Illinois Greek Club, translator, Cambridge, MA, 1923)
Vegetius, Epitome of Military Science	Vegetius, Epitome of Military Science (N. P. Milner, translator, Liverpool, 1993)
Xenophon, The Cavalry Commander	Xenophon, Scripta Minora (Minor works) (Loeb Classical Library edition, E. C. Marchant and G. W. Bowersock, translators, Cambridge, MA, 1960)
Xenophon, The Education of Cyrus	Xenophon, Cyropaedia (2 vols) (Loeb Classical Library edition, Walter Miller, translator, Cambridge, MA, 1914)
Xenophon, On Horsemanship	Xenophon, Scripta Minora (Minor works) (Loeb Classical Library edition, E. C. Marchant and G. W. Bowersock, translators, Cambridge, MA, 1960)

For non-military authors, all translations come from the Loeb Classical Library edition (except where otherwise noted by the author).