Roman Legions - Sometimes found all at sea!

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  @Drachinifel · 2 years ago · pinned

  Pinned post for Q&A :)

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• PL

  @ploegdbq · 2 years ago

  An exhibit of Roman arms? So that's where the arms from all those statues went.

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• ST

  @stephen5656 · 2 years ago

  If you hate your job just appreciate you're not the guy in the roman navy who had to refill the snake pots when ashore.

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• CA

  @Casmaniac · 2 years ago

  The Romans were kind of famous for turning sea battles into land battles, especially during the first Punic war, so this makes perfect sense to me Drach

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• NA

  @napalmholocaust9093 · 2 years ago

  Thanks to the museum also for letting Drach film prior to opening without the cacophony and rabble of a crowd swirling around him as he tries to film. Impressive display.

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• TH

  @theeddorian · 2 years ago

  The larger dagger from Herculanium is a "pugio."  It was standard gear for legionaries, or at least some ranks.  The name is from the same root as "pugilist," which gives you an idea of how it was used.

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• LI

  @libhranan · 2 years ago

  That hound has a good bit of resemblance to a Pyrenees.  We had one as a livestock guard dog, and there are lots of stories of them fighting off threats like bears, mountain lions, and whole packs of coyotes.

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• RO

  @ROBERTN-ut2il · 2 years ago

  Don't forget the motto of the Royal Marines is in Latin "Per Mare, Per Terram" - By Land, By Sea. There have been several times Britain found itself short of marines, so drafted in soldiers to make up the difference. One such time was the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, when several infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment found themselves at sea. This led the cavalry unit to adopt as its cap badge, the seahorse. (I heraldry, this is known as "canting arms" - "Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visual pun or rebus.")

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• SE

  @SearTrip · 2 years ago

  That Marine from Herculaneum gets around. I saw him in an exhibit in Washington, D.C. a few decades ago not long after he was unearthed.

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• JO

  @jonathanwhite5132 · 2 years ago

  Correction Drach the Republic was already dead by the time of the  Battle of Actium, the war with Antony was just to defeat a rival and to pull the eastern provinces into his fold.

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• MO

  @moniker7005 · 2 years ago

  Yet! don't worry Drac, you'll make it one day

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• JE

  @jeffholloway3882 · 2 years ago

  So, marines has a long historical tradition of "devil dogs"?. I have to say, i wasn't expecting this particular subject, but, it was a enjoyable subject.

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