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The menaulion or menavlion (), also menaulon or menavlon (μέναυλον) was a heavy with a length of Nikephoros Ouranos, Taktika, 56.8 with a thick shaft, used by the infantry as early as the 10th century AD, against enemy .

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Its use is attested by emperor in his treatise Praecepta Militaria, and by Nikephoros Ouranos and Leo VI the Wise in their Taktika. It is also described in the 10th-century treatise known as the Sylloge Tacticorum. The men who were carrying the menaulia ( menaulatoi, sing. menaulatos) were deployed behind the battle line and were only ordered to advance in front before the enemy cavalry charge. They seem to have arrayed in a thin line directly in front of the first rank of the battle line,Nikephoros Phokas, Praecepta Militaria, I.10 although the Sylloge Tacticorum has the menaulatoi forming well before it, a tactic strongly condemned by Nikephoros Phokas.Nikephoros Phokas, Praecepta Militaria, I.9 Another proposed deployment was obliquely on the flanks of a friendly infantry formation, along with javelineers, in an attempt to directly attack the flanks of the advancing enemy.Nikephoros Ouranos, Taktika, 56.13 They also deployed in the intervals between the heavy infantry formations of the Byzantine line along with light infantry to guard against enemy exploitation attempts. Within the encampment, they were positioned at the exits.Nikephoros Phokas, Praecepta Militaria, V.34

In his work , Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus orders great numbers of menaulia to be produced.Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, De Ceremoniis Aulae Byzantinae, II.44

It has been proposed that the vinavlon mentioned in the 6th century AD by in the sixth book of his Chronographia is an archaic form of the same weapon, although in Malalas' text it is carried by cavalrymen.


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