 | Alexander Adam - 1807 - 636 pagine
...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 - 598 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1819 - 572 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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... | |
 | Sallust - 1829 - 408 pagine
...colonies. 13. Propter aquilam, &c. Each Roman legion had for ifs chief standard an eagle of gold or silver, with expanded wings, on the top of a spear, sometimes...its claws, with the figure of a small chapel above \t. Consult Rasche, Lex JJei Numm. vo\. \, ^. "S3&. ~St<A»&V$ the same Pg*. eagle is meant in tbe... | |
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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... 
