α3080Ἀπετάφρευον
they fenced off with a ditch
Menander [writes]: "for the Romans did not fence [camps] off with ditches earlier nor indeed did they have this sort of knowledge at all in their repetoire until Mauricius the son of Paulos began the war in the east.…
Ἀπετάφρευον· Μένανδρος· οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι γὰρ οὐκ ἀπετάφρευον τὸ πρότερον οὔτε μὴν ἐν ἐπιστήμῃ πάμπαν τὸ τοιόνδε εἶχον πρότερον, ἢ Μαυρίκιον τὸν Παύλου ἡγήσασθαι τοῦ ἑῴου πολέμου. ἐπειδὴ…