{"id":114051,"date":"2022-11-03T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=114051"},"modified":"2022-11-03T13:13:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:13:39","slug":"names-of-animals-in-legions","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/names-of-animals-in-legions\/","title":{"rendered":"Names of animals in legions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Romans adopted <b>the names of many <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/animals-and-hunting-in-world-of-romans\/\">animals<\/a><\/b> for their military equipment, including: eagles (<em>aquilae<\/em>) for the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/life-of-a-roman-legionary\/\">legionary<\/a> mark; the ram (<em>aries<\/em>) for the ram; &#8220;pig&#8217;s head&#8221; (<em>caput porci<\/em>) for wedge <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/military-formations-of-ancient-romans\/battle-and-marching-formations-of-ancient-romans\/\">formation<\/a>; raven (<em>corvus<\/em>) for the boarding bridge; <em>cuniculus<\/em> (&#8220;tunnel&#8221; derived from the word rabbit &#8211; <em>coniglio<\/em>, thus &#8220;rabbit hole&#8221;); <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/wolf-animal-of-ancient-rome\/\">wolf<\/a> (<em>lupus<\/em>) for a defensive tool used to push siege ladders away from walls; or &#8220;Marius&#8217;s mules&#8221; (<em>muli Mariani<\/em>) to describe Roman legionaries after reform of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/gajusz-mariusz\/\">Gaius Marius<\/a>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To make the operation of the troops more flexible, it was decided to increase the amount of equipment carried by <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wojsko\/zycie-legionisty-rzymskiego\/\">legionaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36709,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[80],"class_list":["post-114051","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-army"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/114051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/114051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=114051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}