Complex sentence: The use of a heavy swinging-arc weapon in the well-disciplined tight formations of the Roman infantry would not have been practical, though auxiliaries from Syria Palestina were armed with clubs and maces at the battles of Immae and Emesa in 272 AD.
Split into simpler sentences: The use of a heavy swinging-arc weapon in the well-disciplined tight formations of the Roman infantry would not have been practical. Though auxiliaries from Syria Palestina were armed with clubs and maces at the battles of Immae and Emesa in 272 AD.