Legionary Insignia

[Dan Diffendale]

We're sure we don't know what you're talking about here. Everybody knows that Roman legions from Caesar to Constantine all wore
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No need to beat a dead horse -- I think we're all in agreement that they all wore sunglasses.

Pliny tells us that, before Marius, there were five signa: eagle, wolf, minotaur (possibly the man-headed bull sometimes seen on Italiote Greek coins), horse, and boar.

Romanis eam legionibus Gaius Marius in secundo consulatu suo proprie dicavit. erat et antea prima cum quattuor aliis: lupi, minotauri, equi aprique singulos ordines anteibant.

Festus, writing in the late second century CE, also attests the Minotaur as a standard.

MINOTAURI effigies inter signa militaria est, quod non minus occulta esse debent consilia ducum, quam fuit domicilium ejus labyrinthus.

Via LacusCurtius, "Signa Militaria" from Smith's Dictionary.