military unit
Legio V Alaudae
the Alauda legion
also: Alaudae, Alaudarum, the Larks, Alauda legion
The Fifth legion "Alaudae" ("the Larks"), raised by Julius Caesar (originally from Transalpine Gauls); in November 44 BC Antony marched on Rome leading it under standards and exacting money from the towns.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 16.8 §2 with the Alauda legion
The Legio V Alaudae ("the Larks"), a legion originally raised by Caesar in Transalpine Gaul, now serving Antony.
- First Philippic §20 Legion of the Larks
The Legio V Alaudae (the Larks), raised by Caesar from Transalpine Gauls; Antony's law would draw jurors even from its common soldiers.
- Thirteenth Philippic §3 the Larks and the rest of the veterans
The Alaudae ("Larks") were the Fifth Legion, raised by Caesar in Transalpine Gaul from natives; the name became a byword for Antony's roughest partisans. Cicero scorns them as a "nursery of jurors" for Antony's new third panel of the courts.