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P. V. Renatus, Latin author in Late Antiquity. As well as a work on veterinary medicine (Digesta artis mulomedicinae; cf. Mulomedicina Chironis; Veterinary medicine), V. wrote a technical military text (Epitoma rei militaris), which in four books covers questions of recruitment and military training (book 1), the organization of Roman legions (book 2; Legio ), strategic and tactical problems (book 3), and besieging cities and warfare at sea (book 4; Naval warfare). After V. had written De dilectu atque exercitatione tironum (= book 1), he received a com…