11-21-2008, 12:24 AM
Sorry, the precise answer you are looking for may be found here on 'Roman Army.com', in the article by Etterling....
"(Caesar) ad legiones, quas a republica acceperat, alias privato sumptu addidit, unam etiam ex Transalpinis conscriptam vocabulo quoque Gallico (Alauda[e] enim appellabatur), quam disciplina cultuque romano institutam et ornatam postea universam civitate donavit (Suet. Caes. 24)
"... with legions at his own expense: one even recruited in Transalpine Gaul and called Alaudae (Gallic for 'crested lark'), which he trained and equipped in Roman style. Later he gave them all full citizenship..."(Seutonius: Caesar 24 )
From the plural it would appear that V 'Alaudae' was but one of several Legions raised at Caesar's own expense....
"(Caesar) ad legiones, quas a republica acceperat, alias privato sumptu addidit, unam etiam ex Transalpinis conscriptam vocabulo quoque Gallico (Alauda[e] enim appellabatur), quam disciplina cultuque romano institutam et ornatam postea universam civitate donavit (Suet. Caes. 24)
"... with legions at his own expense: one even recruited in Transalpine Gaul and called Alaudae (Gallic for 'crested lark'), which he trained and equipped in Roman style. Later he gave them all full citizenship..."(Seutonius: Caesar 24 )
From the plural it would appear that V 'Alaudae' was but one of several Legions raised at Caesar's own expense....
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff