“ In spite of its academic nature, the copious details to be found in the treatise rendered it of the highest value to the army organizers of the 16th century, who were engaged in fashioning a regular military system out of the semi-feudal systems of previous generations. The Macedonian phalanx of Aelian had many points of resemblance to the solid masses of pikemen and the “squadrons” of cavalry of the Spanish and Dutch systems, and the translations made in the 16th century formed the groundwork of numerous books on drill and tactics. ”

“ B (ingham) , which includes a drill manual of the English troops in the Dutch service, Tacticks of Aelian (London, 1616) are of importance in the military literature of the period. A later French translation by Bouchard de Bussy. La Milice des Grecs on Tactique d’Élien (Paris 1737 and 1757) ; Baumgärtner’s German translation in his incomplete Sammlung aller Kriegsschriftsteller der Griechen (Mannheim and Frankenthal, 1779) , reproduced in 1786 as Von Schlachtordnungen, and Viscount Dillon’s English version (London, 1814) may also be mentioned. ”

“ M. Jähns, Gesch. der Kriegswissenschaften, i. 95-97 (Munich, 1889) ; Rüstow and Köchly, Gesch. des griechischen Kriegswesens (1852) ; A. de Lort-Sérignan, La Phalange (1880) ; P. Serre, Études sur l’histoire militaire et maritime des Grecs et des Romains (1887) ”