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 | | Each legion had another officer, called immaginifer, whose role was to carri a pike with the imago (image, sculpture) of the emperor as pontifex maximus. |
 | | Each legion, furthermore, had a vexillifer who carried a vexillum or signum, with the legion name and emblem depicted on it, and unique to the legion, since different from those carried by the other legions. |
 | | It was common, for a legion, to detach some sub-units from the main camp, to strengthen other corps; in these cases, the detached subunits carried only the vexillum, and not the aquila, and were called, therefore, vexillationes. |
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