12-02-2008, 06:25 PM
Salve Corvine
Many thanks for the ideas about how the 18th might have displayed their number.
Symmetry and design sound very plausible. It would certainly look good whatever it was carved or painted on. That's something I had not thought of, so I am very grateful to you for putting that idea in my head. I shall have to look more closely at insignia in the future.
Yes, the 17th, 18th and 19th. Varus, legiones redde! A dreadful business, and it reminds me of one theory about the 9th Spanish, my own favorite.
You will see from my profile that I am well past the age for retiring from the eagles. But I would have loved to have been active in LEG IX HISP, had a group been active at the time. One group did come and go, but unfortunately we passed one another by. I shall always regret missing the chance to be a tiro, - or perhaps even an optio spes - under those colours. Then I could have legitimately earned my citizenship. Aaah well.
On the roman teenage girl, yes, I have the story, the words of the funeral service, and a picture of the Consul of Nova Roma and me standing beside the marble plaque. I'm not sure which bit of the site to post it into - any suggestions? It is, I think, a great story, and London did very well to arrange and mark the reburial in such a sensitive way. For once the bureaucrats were overruled!
So, thanks again - I think I am going to like it here.
Vale optime
Gaius Marcius Crispus AKA Bob[/b]
Many thanks for the ideas about how the 18th might have displayed their number.
Symmetry and design sound very plausible. It would certainly look good whatever it was carved or painted on. That's something I had not thought of, so I am very grateful to you for putting that idea in my head. I shall have to look more closely at insignia in the future.
Yes, the 17th, 18th and 19th. Varus, legiones redde! A dreadful business, and it reminds me of one theory about the 9th Spanish, my own favorite.
You will see from my profile that I am well past the age for retiring from the eagles. But I would have loved to have been active in LEG IX HISP, had a group been active at the time. One group did come and go, but unfortunately we passed one another by. I shall always regret missing the chance to be a tiro, - or perhaps even an optio spes - under those colours. Then I could have legitimately earned my citizenship. Aaah well.
On the roman teenage girl, yes, I have the story, the words of the funeral service, and a picture of the Consul of Nova Roma and me standing beside the marble plaque. I'm not sure which bit of the site to post it into - any suggestions? It is, I think, a great story, and London did very well to arrange and mark the reburial in such a sensitive way. For once the bureaucrats were overruled!
So, thanks again - I think I am going to like it here.
Vale optime
Gaius Marcius Crispus AKA Bob[/b]
GAIUS MARCIUS CRISPUS AKA Bob