Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
43 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Centurio Hastatus
|
cohort commander
|
|
|
Beneficiarii
|
Officers Orderlies
|
|
|
Sacramentum
|
Pledge of service for 25 years
|
|
|
Speculatores
|
Scouts
|
|
|
Metatores
|
Surveyors
|
|
|
Vexillum
|
Red camp banner
|
|
|
Agger
|
Defense wall
|
|
|
Fossae
|
Defense ditches
|
|
|
Ientaculum
|
Breakfast
|
|
|
Cena
|
Dinner
|
|
|
Pisa Farsilis
|
Calf brains, pork bellies, leek, pine nuts, and olive oil
|
|
|
Munutal e Praecoquis
|
Ham, raisin wine, apricots, anise, and mint
|
|
|
Farcimen
|
Sausage--made from lobster, black petter, eggs, and bread
|
|
|
Cohort
|
480 man unite made up of 3 Maniples
|
|
|
Manipulus
|
160 man unit made up of 2 Ordines
|
|
|
Ordo
|
80 man unit made up of 10 tents
|
|
|
Signifer
|
Standard bearer; leads a maniple
|
|
|
Dux
|
commander of a legion
|
|
|
Praefex Castrorum
|
Camp disciplinarian
|
|
|
Primus Pilus
|
Commander of the 1st Cohort
|
|
|
Tribuni Militum
|
Military tribunes
|
|
|
Bucina
|
Signal horn
|
|
|
Balteus
|
shoulder belt
|
|
|
Cornu
|
Reveille horn
|
|
|
Cingulum
|
Waist belt
|
|
|
Pugio
|
suicide dagger
|
|
|
caligae
|
military hob-nailed boots
|
|
|
vagina
|
sheath
|
|
|
lorica segmentata
|
metal-strap cuirass
|
|
|
officer's red cape
|
paludamentum
|
|
|
Sagum
|
gray cape worn by foot soldiers
|
|
|
Subligaculum
|
underwear
|
|
|
Domine
|
"sir"
|
|
|
Gladius
|
short sword hung from a balteus on the right side
|
|
|
falcata
|
curved one-edged sword
|
|
|
Spatha
|
long cavalry sword hung from a Balteus on the left side
|
|
|
Pilum
|
thrusting sword
|
|
|
Magnum Inter
|
a forced 25-mile march
|
|
|
Sagitarii
|
Archers
|
|
|
Lituus
|
Cavalry horn
|
|
|
Tuba
|
Battle engagement horn
|
|
|
Nudi
|
Slingers
|
|
|
Singa Referre
|
To retreat--to turn standards around
|
