TABLE OF FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS, ILLUSTRIOUS COUNT, TO VALENTINIAN AUGUSTUS.

The four books begin.

The first book teaches the selection of new recruits: from which places or what kind of soldiers are to be approved: or with what training of arms they are to be imbued.

The second book contains the custom of ancient warfare, according to which a foot army may be established.

The third book explains all the kinds of arts which seem necessary for land battle.

The fourth book enumerates all the machines by which cities are either besieged or defended: it also attaches precepts of naval warfare.

Chapters of the first book.


That all nations were conquered by the Romans solely by the training of arms.	Chapter i
From which regions recruits are to be chosen.	ii
Whether recruits are more useful from the fields or from the cities.	iii
Of what age recruits are to be approved.	iv
Of what stature recruits are to be approved.	v
That recruits can be recognized in choosing by their countenance and position of body, as to who may be better.	vi
Of what craft recruits are to be chosen or rejected.	vii
When recruits are to be branded.	viii
Training recruits for military rank and for running and jumping.	ix
Training recruits in the use of swimming.	x
In what manner the ancients trained recruits to wicker shields and to posts.	xi
That recruits are to be taught to strike not by cutting but by thrusting.	xii
Training recruits in armor.	xiii