Thread: 'попал в мешок'... were surrounded? etc

'An infantry manipule {got into a sack = were surrounded}, and if a cavalry squadron had not cut in from the flank, commanded by me by the way, then for you, philosopher, it would not be possible to converse with Ratslayer.'

If you look at the map where the surrounded troops are marked with a line, you'll see a curve looking like a sack.
Not just a circle but a sack with thin walls that don't let the people break through from inside.

the "by the way" was inspired with the "A" in the original wording, cuz it exerts the same effect on the reader.

Thanks both. It's an odd phrase, to me.

'Пехотный манипул попал в мешок'... I had thought it meant that they put Ratslayer into a sack after they had caught him. Is there something about this sentence that stops it from meaning that? Also, what case are 'манипул' and 'фланга'; they both look like genitive plural to me.

Thanks for the sack idea Medved, it sounds feasible; just a gap in the surrounding army, like a pocket, or something. Open at one end, until the enemy close it behind them. Putting 'by the way' in there would be a natural addition in this context.

> Is there something about this sentence that stops it from meaning that?
"F...king cool"
Is there something about this sentence that stops it from meaning "to have sex with ice"?