Re: Locutorium Virtuale Scholae

"Caligula" <caius.caligula@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Ed Cryer a écrit :
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>> The usual word was simply "signum".
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> Yes, it was. Like the password given by the christian's god to 
> Constantine...
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> In hoc signo vinces.
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> Caligula
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Yes indeed. So C had it emblazoned on his soldiers' ****elds and banners, 
and then marched into battle. And according to writers of the time 
(Christian, of course) it threw dread and fear into the enemy.
I guess the "chi-rho" was as powerful as the sign of the fish had been 
earlier.

It is noticeable that "signum" was also the word used for a Roman army 
standard.

Ed