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On handling the menavlion

The study of Byzantine military treatises is often fraught with obstacles due to the interpretation of technical terms which have lost their meaning through the passage of time. This paper is concerned with an obscurity called the menavlion and the soldiers who wielded that weapon: the menavlatoi . The menavlion has been identified as a heavy javelin or spear, a short hunting-spear and, more recently, as a pike comparable to that carried by the heavy foot-soldiers in the Byzantine army.