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Mithridates VI also was left with one eye during a battle against the Romans. From what I read in "The Last King" a pilum was thrown at him and landed in his right cheek while he had his mouth open. He lost his eye or the sight in the right eye during the surgery.
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Many of the Romans' Germanic enemies worshipped a one-eyed god, Odin (under one or another of his many names).
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And whats the morale of the story? If you fight the Romans, you may lose an eye!
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Well, Pompey would have considered these guys enemies of Rome, so here's this, from Julius Caesar's The Civil War:
(F. P. Long translation, during the protracted battle of Dyrrachium, p. 144)
"On our side [i.e., Caesar's] the killed amounted to no more than twenty in all six battles, though, on the other hand, of the men inside the redoubt not one escaped unwounded, and of the company officers belonging to this one battalion four out of the six had lost their eyes."
Presumably, this was one eye per soldier, as losing one would probably cause anybody who was able to retire, to do so. Does this count in this topic?
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Moshe Dayan lost an eye in WWII...not that has relevance. :oops:
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