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 | | Recruited in Italy or any Empire’s province, the legionar was strenghten by hard discipline, stout and strong, in twenty years of service was accustomed to a diet based on garlic and onions, spelt soup and grain slowcoach, drinking the posca, a water and vinegar mixture. |
 | | A military expedition leaded by P. Quintilius Varus, commanding the XVII, XVIII and XIX Legions, was surprised in an ambush of the Cheruscan in the Teotoburg Forest, wooded region in the Westfalia of today among the Ems and Weser rivers. |
 | | Of such roman tragedy happened in the forests of Germany remain us a tombstone, conserved in Bonn, remembering the name of Marcus Celius, a 53 years old centurion of the XVIII Legio, killed in action with his slaves Privatus and Thiaminus, humble victims of the extreme devotion to their lord. |
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