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Started by Admiral Yi, April 06, 2021, 03:00:38 PM

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The Brain

I heard Alaric's crap was in Italy, but it's been years since I read about it.
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Quote from: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 08:20:22 AM
Did he bury it then divert a river over the site so no-one would find it?

Yes, he was buried with it, allegedly in a river bed near Cosenza in southern Italy.

But as others have noted, it is a story attributed to various historical figures.

grumbler

I was confusing Alaric and Brennus, anyway. 
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Agelastus

Quote from: grumbler on July 21, 2021, 11:32:46 AM
I was confusing Alaric and Brennus, anyway.

My first reaction to your post was Brennus but then I second guessed myself into thinking that was too far in the past compared to when the gold disappeared. :blush:

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Question:

Around the year 300, how many 3rd (III) Legions were in service with the Roman Empire?
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Agelastus

"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

grumbler

The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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Quote from: grumbler on July 21, 2021, 01:37:26 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 12:34:05 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 21, 2021, 12:16:23 PM
3.

Nope.

III

:lol:

I really, really wish it was that number just for the amusement factor, but unfortunately...no

Now, if we were talking 1AD and not 300AD you would have been right.
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Quote from: grumbler on July 21, 2021, 08:59:38 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on July 21, 2021, 08:20:22 AM
Did he bury it then divert a river over the site so no-one would find it?


Yeah, it was up by Narbo in Roman Gaul, but I don't remember the name of the town.  Colleen McCullough had a fun little story about that...

Tolusa.  It was the "Gold of Tolusa"

Huh
Just read about this. The gallic invasion of Greece is not something I've ever heard of. Sounds so impossibly unlikely and bizzare on the surface of it.
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The Larch

IIRC it was something silly like 5 or 6 3rd legions. Yet the silliest was the 1st legion, of which there were more than 10. There were 5 Legio I Flavia + extra apellative alone.

Agelastus

Actually, open floor. I withdraw my question as I should have said 200 AD as the year, not 300 AD.

The answer should have been five -

III Augusta (Raised by Augustus)
III Cyrenaica (Raised by M. Antonius)
III Gallica (Raised by Caesar)
III Italica (Raised by Aurelius)
III Parthica (Raised by Severus)

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The Larch

Ah, so pre-Diocletian's reform then. That was a clearer time, as afterwards IIRC there was a lot of mix up with regular troops and border troops, with all of them being lumped together as legions while there were actually different ranks between them.

The Larch

Now that we are talking about Imperial Roman Legions, a question about them!

By the early IIIrd century AD the overwhelming majority of Roman legions were stationed in the different border provinces, except for two. Which regions did those two legions cover?

Caliga

One was stationed in Italia, the other Egypt?
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