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 1 2|      spit, I do not know how a staff can be used by one who holds
 2 2|   combat in the ranks with the staff (as arms) is useless, except
 3 2|     space to deploy the entire staff, which cannot be done in
 4 2|      places; for if you have a staff and want to use it with
 5 2|   there remains so much of the staff in the back part, that those
 6 2|        Romans did not have the staff, or, having it, they valued
 7 2| Therefore I want to leave this staff, and relate how much the
 8 2|    offense relied more on this staff than on the sword, and especially
 9 2|         They had a sword and a staff with an iron point, long
10 2|        weak movements with the staff, and because they had no
11 2|    smaller and square, and the staff more solid and with two
12 2|   because of the length of the staff, so he must use the sword,