AENEAS TACTICUS (4th

See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C.)  , one of the earliest Greek writers on the art of war . According to Aelianus Tacticus and Polybius, he wrote a number of treatises (`T7royinjua-ra) on the subject; the only one extant deals with the best methods of defending a fortified city . An epitome of the whole was made by Cineas, minister of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus . The work is chiefly valuable as containing a large number of historical illustrations . Aeneas was considered by Casaubon to have been a contemporary of Xenophon and identical with the Arcadian general Aeneas of Stymphalus, whom Xenophon (Hellenica, vii . 3) mentions as fighting at the battle of Mantinea (362 B.c.) . Editions in I . Casaubon's (1619), Gronovius' (167o) and Ernesti's (1763) editions of Polybius; also separately, with notes, by J . C . Orelli (Leipzig, 1818) . Other texts are those of W . Rustow and H .

Kochly (Griechische Kriegsschri tsteller, vol. i . Leipzig, 1853) and A .

Hug, Prolegomena Critica ¢ Aeneae . editionem (Zurich . University, 1874) . See also Count Beausobre, Commentaires sur la defense des places d'Aeneas (Amsterdam, 1757); A . Hug, Aeneas von Stymphalos (Zurich, 1877) ; C . C . Lange, De Aeneae commentario poliorcetico (Berlin, 1879) ; M . H . Meyer, Observationes in Aeneam Tacticum (Halle, 1835) ; Haase, in Jahns Jahrbuch, 1835, xiv . 1; Max Jahns, Gesch. der Kriegswissenschafien, i. pp . 26-28 (Munich, 1889) ; Ad .

Bauer, in Zeitschrift fur allg . Geschichte, &c., 1886, i.; T . H . Williams in American Journal of Philology, xxv . 4; E . Schwartz in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie (Stuttgart, 1894) .