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The Roman formation you presented is wrong. Paulinus positioned the legionaries in a "herringbone" formation so that the warriors crowded against the legionaries' shields without being able to move because of their comrades pressing from behind allowing the Romans to kill thousands of Britons who could not even move squeezed between the legionaries in front and their comrades in the rear making any resistance useless and bloody.
They were the go-to Legion of Julius Caesar and followed Caesar all the way to Rome, even after mutyning once when JC convinced them to stay w him in Gaul, side story. After JC being assassinated it became Augustus property. When it protested and demanded their salary and loot promised by JC, by now emperor Augustus summarily broke it apart and disbanded it in disgrace. That’s why it appears all their records or whereabouts suddenly ceased to exist.
Merida is the Rome pf Spain. Incredible the Roman theatre and the bridge , the largest roman bridge surviving with almost 800 m and in use. And the jewel of af ancient Rome in Hispania: the Alcantara bridge, in Caceres, astonishing with 60 m high.
I have that double denarius saying of pupienus “AMOR MVTVVS AVGG”. “Mutual/reciprocal love of the emperors”. Imagine if the USA has two presidents like Trump and Harris…. What could go wrong?
