Roman army of the mid-Republic x 700m = ca. 50 hectares). Along the perimeter, a ditch ("fossa") would be excavated, and the spoil used to build an earthen rampart ("agger") on the inside of the ditch. On top of the rampart was erected a palisade ("vallum") of cross-hatched wooden stakes with sharpened points. Within this precinct, a standard, elaborate plan was used to allocate space, in a pre-set pattern, for the tents of each of the various components of the army: officers, legionary infantry (split into "hastati", "principes" and "triarii") and legionary cavalry, Italian allied infantry and cavalry, "extraordinarii" and non-Italian allies. The idea was
Taking a Line for a Second Walk first three tracks of the album (the second and third are identified as "(untitled)" in the reissue cover, and simply left blank in the original). The album also contains an expansion of the "Water Dances" for Peter Greenaway's film about synchronized swimming, "Making a Splash", which originally appeared on the album "The Kiss and Other Movements". The album's liner notes mention that this latter work invokes a chord progression from a madrigal by Claudio Monteverdi. Taking a Line for a Second Walk Taking a Line for a Second Walk is the name of piano duo reduction of a dance work