 A silver eagle, with expanded wings, on the top of a spear, sometimes holding a thunderbolt in its claws, with the figure of a small chapel above it, Dio. xl. 18., was the common standard of the legion, at least after the time of Marius, for before that...  Select Orations: With English Notes - Pagina 161door Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 518 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alexander Adam - 1807 - 636 pagina’s
...soldiers, the standards were sometimes thrown among the enemy, Liv. iii. 70. vi. 8. xxv. 14. xxvi. ,5. A silver eagle, with expanded wings, on the top of...claws, with the figure of a small chapel above it, Dio, xl, 18. was the common standard of the legion, at least after the time of Marius, for before that... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1819 - 572 pagina’s
...soldiers, the standards were sometimes thrown among the enemy, Liv. iii. 70. vi. 8. xxv. 14. xxvi. 5. A silver eagle, with expanded wings, on the top of...claws, with the figure of a small chapel above it, Dio. xl. 10. was the common standard of the legion, at least alter the time of Marias, for before that... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1819 - 598 pagina’s
...soldiers, the standards were sometimes thrown among the enemy, Liv. iii. TQ. vi. 8. xxv. 14. xxvi. 5. A silver eagle, with expanded wings, on the top of...claws, with the figure of a- small chapel above it, Din. xl. 18., was the common standard of the legion, at least after the time of Marius, for before... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1819 - 602 pagina’s
...soldiers, the standards were sometimes thrown among the enemy, Liv. iii. 70. vi. 8. xxv. 14. xxvi. 5. A silver eagle, with expanded wings, on the top of...claws, with the figure of a small chapel above it, Dio. xl. 18., was the common standard of the legion, at least after the time of Marius, for before... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1819 - 578 pagina’s
...soldiers, the standards were sometimes thrown among the enemy, Liv. iii. TO. vi. 8. xxv. 14. xxvi. 5. A silver eagle, with expanded wings, on the top of...claws, with the figure of a small chapel above it, Dio. jj. 18. was the common standard of the legion, at least after the time of Marius, for before that... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pagina’s
...inscribed on them, to distinguish the one from the other. The standard of a legion, according to Dio, was a silver eagle with expanded wings, on the top of...spear, sometimes holding a thunderbolt in its claws : hence the word a/juila was used to signify a legion. The place for this standard was near the General,... | |
 | George Crabb - 1823 - 704 pagina’s
...standards, among the Roman infantry, were called signa, and that of the cavalry vexillum, which were a silver eagle, with expanded wings, on the top of a spear, •w^ith other figures, as represented in fig. 2, pi. 47. -Sieges. When the ancients endeavoured to... | |
 | Alexandre Étienne G. baron de Théis - 1826 - 502 pagina’s
...kinds march under the same standard, which is carried by the first centurion of the triarii. It is a silver eagle with expanded wings, on the top of a spear, holding a thunder-bolt in its claws. I am told that, in former times, the first legion alone had the... | |
 | Chronological guide - 1828 - 278 pagina’s
...together of the several troops belonging to the same body. The common standard of the Roman legions was a silver eagle, with expanded wings, on the top of...spear , sometimes holding a thunderbolt in its claws. TAG us, a leader, or captain-general. TALENT. The Attic and Roman was about £193 15s. ; the Attic... | |
 | Julius Caesar - 1829 - 334 pagina’s
...potuerant. Hoc unum ad pristínam fortunara Caesári défait. 74. gnam UK, ie Britanni. 75. aquilam. A silver eagle, with expanded wings, on the top of...holding a thunderbolt in its claws, with the figure of a ¿mall chapel above it, was the common standard of the legion. 76,. épates cursùm teñen nonpotcrant,... | |
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