By Stephen Dando-Collins
This fourth ebook in Dando-Collins’s definitive background of Rome’s legions tells the tale of Rome’s third Gallica Legion, which placed Vespasian at the throne and kept the lifetime of the Christian apostle Paul. Named for his or her chief, Mark Antony, those universal Roman infantrymen, via their gallantry at the battlefield, reshaped the Roman Empire and aided the unfold of Christianity all through Europe.
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The bull was a symbol common to legions that had served Julius Caesar, and this enlistment of the legion had been raised by Caesar’s recruiting officers. On their waist hung their “short” weapons, the twenty-inch gladius, a short sword with a pointed end, in a scabbard on the right hip, and a puglio, or dagger, on the left. Over their right shoulders they carried poles from which hung their packs, containing entrenching tools, personal items, bravery decorations, and rations. Strapped to each carrying pole were several javelins and two sharp wooden pickets.
Octavian had pardoned Lucius Antony, and had sent him to command on his behalf in Spain. Fulvia had fled from Italy to Athens in Greece. And Lucius’s six legions were being shipped to North Africa. The second dispatch informed Antony that the Parthian invasion of the Roman East was achieving spectacular success. The Parthian prince Pacorus had entered Jerusalem and installed Antigonus as high priest. Antigonus had sliced off the ears of his uncle, Hyrcanus, and sent him into captivity in Parthia.
Qxd 8/28/06 22 11:09 AM Page 22 m a r k a n to n y ’s h e r oe s Labienus and the Parthians, to await further orders there. c. in preparation for his aborted Parthian campaign. Antony himself sailed to Greece with his massive fleet, then proceeded overland to Athens. Antony’s wife, Fulvia, was waiting for him at Athens, and we can only imagine the confrontation when they met. Ancient authorities say that the ambitious Fulvia had encouraged Lucius to revolt because she was jealous of Cleopatra’s influence over Antony, and had been determined to become the major power broker, and sideline Cleopatra.