object
Tent
A portable cloth or skin shelter on poles. Not black-tent as one named form alone, and not house as a fixed dwelling.
Tent is historically related to Canvas.
Vegetius’s military handbook seats tents among camp shelters of cloth and canvas stock. A named tent beside canvas, not black-tent as one named form alone.
from Vegetius · Epitoma rei militaris, late 4th–early 5th century CE
historically related to · sourced · documented
Roman religion
Bedroll is historically related to Tent.
Vegetius’s Epitoma seats blankets and sleep-gear among the soldier’s pack and tent life — rolled bedding for nights in camp. Named bedroll historically related to published tent, not shelter-half as later pup-tent panels and not bell-tent as later conical canvas.
from Vegetius · Epitoma rei militaris, late 4th–early 5th century CE
historically related to · sourced · documented
sources
- Epitoma rei militaris · Vegetius
Vegetius, Epitoma rei militaris (On Military Matters).