The archaeologists have also unearthed fragments of swords, parts of shields and spearheads that were part of the armament of the opposing Rhaetians, he said. The slingshots are marked with the letters that show which Roman legion made them, - while the shoe nails and some other weapons, including some of the spearheads, are clearly also of Roman origin, he said. “It is not only the outstanding individual objects such as the dagger (a pugio) that are interesting, but also the large number and composition of the found objects,” study team member Peter-Andrew Schwarz, an archaeologist at the University of Basel, told Live Science in an email. In one month, the team unearthed hundreds of military artifacts, including hobnails from caligae, coins, fragments of shields, lead sling bullets and spearheads. He alerted the ADG to his finds and archaeologists followed up with an excavation at the site this September. next to a gladius, the short double-edged sword that was standard issue for Roman legionaries and local auxiliaries. It was complete, albeit missing its scabbard. Schmid found the heavily corroded dagger a foot beneath the surface. Roman lead sling bullets and weapons have been discovered there since 2003. and established a summer military camp to control the Septimer Pass. He was scanning an area of the Crap Ses Gorge in the Oberhalbstein Alps where Roman legions battled the Rhaeti in 15 B.C. The pugio was found in May 2019 by metal detectorist Lucas Schmid who volunteers to employ his hobby on behalf of the Archaeological Service of Graubünden (ADG).
Its cross-shaped handle dates it to 50 B.C., an extremely rare type of which only four examples are known. , por Zeus, o guardião da Roma, por meio dos deuses celestiais, eu juro, e eu dou o direito de fazer um juramento, que eu tenho que ser seguido, a morte de César.A Roman dagger discovered near the village of Tiefencastel in the Alpine canton of Graubünden has been restored revealing rich decoration of inlaid silver and brass. Oh, foi rasgado em pedaços toga da masculinidade, do que a roupa de qualquer maneira você vê-los, o ferro nele, mas que ele pode receber de volta. By Jupiter, guardian of Rome, by the heavenly gods, I swear, I give an oath, that I will die of Caesar's death.
Oh the torn toga, which you seem to have clothed in no way, except that you should receive the iron in it. O laceratam togam, quam nulla ratione vestivisse videris, nisi ut in ea ferrum reciperes.per Iovem, Romae custodem, per caelestes deos, iuro, ius iurandum do, me Caesaris mortem persecuturum esse. O dolorem, O cruorem a cano capillo stillantem ! Oh the pain, the blood dripping from my gray hair! Oh dor sanguíneo O está pingando do cabelo grisalho! Quid opus fuit te lenitate tua, O Caesar, quid sacrosanctitate, quid legibus, te crudelissime ab amicis occisum esse ! What need was there for you, your lenity, O Caesar, what sanctity, what laws, that you were most cruelly slain by your friends?, Que necessidade havia de você, a suavidade de sua preferência, Oh, Majestade, que é sacrosanctitate, das leis de, que, você, com a maior crueldade, tinha sido morto por seus amigos para ser! certainly that father, although the greatest pontiff, most sacred, a great man, a god, was slain by his friends, and by his fellow-citizens, whom no enemy had been able to slay. but since he also perished in the supreme command, and I also am carrying on the consulship, I ought not to keep silent about any things which are to be said.Ĭerte pater ille, quamvis pontifex maximus, sacrosanctus, vir magnus, divus, tamen ab amicis, a civibus occisus est, quem nullus hostis interficere potuerat. Sed quoniam et ille in summo imperio periit, et ego etiam consulatum gero, nulla quae dicenda sunt tacere debeo. At si Caesar privatus mortuus esset, magnis orationibus non mihi opus esset, But if he was dead, Caesar, as a private individual, forced by the expressions that do not to me, which might be needed,