aquila
legionary eagle

I made the sign of the aquila almost without thinking.

At the same time Aquila ordered his square to attack.

After 10 years and $2 billion, the Aquila is gone, but the systemic problems remain.

"Our heading is toward Aquila, but we can afford to change course now."

Aquila looked around and up at her, bewilderment on his face.

And Aquila, his mother's lover, who was younger than her son!

"Commander," Aquila said, clearly working hard to control the concern in his voice.

The parish separated from Aquila in 1758 and became independent.

Her last role was in the children's programme Aquila.

Taking classical drama on the road is also part of Aquila's mission.

For distinctions from other Aquila eagles, see below and next page.

He was the second son of the family, after his elder brother Aquila, and had five sisters.

Now Aquila had no choice but to risk the kingdom on one desperate battle.

Mrs. Aquila said yesterday that her son, then just out of college, never got a job.

Happily, the Aquila company appears to have chosen the detailed approach.

Their aquila was in Gaul and lost to them forever, but they wanted no other.

I managed to get myself put in charge of a rescue expedition out Aquila way.

One of the Aquila's great strengths is space management.

The Aquila passed them, the two men waving at them.

Aquila shrugged slightly, which was about all the encouragement any of them were prepared to offer.

"Best possible speed, Aquila," she told him, praying that it would be enough.

Despite its name, the star can be found in the equatorial constellation of Aquila.

Dynegy and Aquila have recently said that they plan to get out of the energy trading business.

Yes, we'll be seeing them again, out Aquila way.

Aquila made a quick gesture with one hand, indicating the house, the surroundings.

Above the heads of the tribesmen swayed the Legionary Eagle.

The Legionary Eagle tossed above the fray for a few desperate moments longer, then went down.

Even after a year and a half without it, Scaurus still missed the legionary eagle his detachment had not rated.

No exemplar of a legionary eagle has ever been found (doubtless because any found in later centuries were melted down for their gold content).

A legionary eagle was ground into gore and the serpent spear hung over-- 'Breaca?'

Book 6 The book opens with a description of Bruttius' burial of the legionary eagle to save it from Hannibal.

So important were legionary eagles as symbols of Roman military prestige and power, that the imperial government would go to extraordinary lengths to recover those captured by the enemy.

An unstained, unused shield showed the mark of the war eagle, so like the legionary eagle of Rome, as did the shields of the three men with him.

In AD 15 Roman troops managed to recapture one of the three legionary eagles lost in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

The Museum of Reading, which houses the Silchester eagle, states that it "is not a legionary eagle but has been immortalized as such by Rosemary Sutcliff."

Loyalty was to the Roman state but pride was based in the soldier's unit, to which was attached a military standard - in the case of the legions a legionary eagle.

The breastplate is carved in relief with numerous small figures depicting the return, thanks to the diplomacy of Augustus, of the Roman legionary eagles or aquilae lost to Parthia by Mark Anthony in the 40s BC and by Crassus in 53 BC.