{"id":51665,"date":"2019-06-30T14:46:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T12:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/arcani-roman-agents-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2021-07-12T00:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T22:19:26","slug":"arcani-roman-agents-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/arcani-roman-agents-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcani &#8211; Roman agents in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Arcani<\/em>, also called <em>areani<\/em>, were agents in Roman military units based in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/geografia\/prowincje-rzymskie\/spis-prowincji-rzymskich\/brytania-rzymska\/\">Roman Britain<\/a> during the later part of the island&#8217;s occupation. They were used as both scouts of legions and secret spies. Many of them were mercenaries. This unit was disbanded by the father of the later <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/teodozjusz-i-wielki\/\">emperor Theodosius I<\/a> &#8211; Flavius Theodosius, for their participation in conspiracies.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The term <em>arcani<\/em> is hapaks legomenon, because we only know about the unit because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/ammianus-marcellinus\/\">Ammianus Marcellinus<\/a>. Probably the members of the unit were residents living in the military zone between the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-architecture\/roman-buildings\/roman-defense-walls\/hadrians-wall\/\">Hadrian&#8217;s wall<\/a> and the <em>vallum<\/em> in the south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36179,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[80],"class_list":["post-51665","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\/51665","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\/51665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=51665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}