Sublime

After the second century the limitanei or frontier troops would have been recruited largely from local youth under the command of professional officers from the Middle East or from beyond the Rhine frontier.

You cannot at the same time be on the mountain and in the valley, but your way leads you from mountain to valley and from valley to mountain. Much begins amusingly and leads into the dark. (Jung 2009: 265)

descending into long gullies, ascending back to the ridgetop, contouring across knolls, negotiating rough, scoparia-covered slopes, and detouring around rock buttresses on highly exposed ground. The going was slow and deliberate: I cautiously moved