{"id":45272,"date":"2018-11-14T21:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T20:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/marcus-cassius-scaeva\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T21:41:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T20:41:55","slug":"marcus-cassius-scaeva","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/marcus-cassius-scaeva\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Cassius Scaeva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roman sources have left us messages about many Roman heroes. One of them was Marcus Cassius Scaeva &#8211; centurion of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/gaius-julius-caesar\/\">Julius Caesar<\/a> during the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wars\/great-roman-civil-war\/\">civil war with Pompey<\/a>. After the battle of Dyrrachium (48 BCE), he was the head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/military-formations-of-ancient-romans\/cohort\/\">cohort<\/a>, which belonged to <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/units-of-roman-army\/roman-legion\/\">legio<\/a> VI. The aim of this unit was to defend a certain fortress against the four legions of Pompey&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/\">army<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/suetonius\/\">Suetonius<\/a>, the commander was to stand in the gate of the stronghold and repel the attacks of enemies with &#8220;one eye gone, his thigh and shoulder wounded, and his shield bored through in a hundred and twenty places&#8221;. Scaeva, moreover, allegedly had summoned a centurion from a hostile army to send soldiers to safely lead him out of the battlefield as a deserter. Centurion gave the order to two of his soldiers &#8211; one of them was killed by Scaeva and the other lost his hand. What&#8217;s more, Scaeva&#8217;s fortress survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40584,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[147],"class_list":["post-45272","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/45272","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\/45272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=45272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}