The spolia opima (Latin for 'rich spoils') were the armour, arms, and other effects that an ancient Roman general stripped from the body of an opposing...

Marcellus gained the most prestigious award a Roman general could earn, the spolia opima, for killing the Gallic king Viridomarus in single combat in 222 BC at...

palace in Split, re-purposed by later inhabitants as a town Slighting Spolia opima – armour and arms a Roman general stripped from the body of an opposing...

and established the republic. Spolia opima: The highest form of spolia duci hostium detracta were known as the spolia opima (rich spoils), which were displayed...

single combat, and was likely the fourth and final Roman to achieve the spolia opima (for taking the armor and weapons of an enemy king after defeating them...

Spolia (spoils) is a Latin word that occurs in the following contexts: Spolia, building rubble re-used Spoils of victory Spolia opima, armour and arms...

sacred flintstone (silex). The most ancient known rites, those of the spolia opima and of the fetials which connect Jupiter with Mars and Quirinus are dedicated...

the Fasti. Livy gives him none, and credits him instead with the first spolia opima, in which the arms and armour were stripped off a defeated foe, then...

and first King of Rome, had claimed the spolia opima, having slain the prince of Caenina. After Cossus, the spolia were claimed in BC 222 by the consul Marcus...

armor of the slain Acro in the temple, inaugurating the tradition of spolia opima being dedicated to Jupiter Feretrius. This term described arms taken...

in 222 BC, Marcus Claudius Marcellus defeated the Gauls and won the spolia opima; in 218 BC, Hannibal took it and its stores of grain by treachery. It...

Hartwell, Nicole (2021). "Framing colonial war loot: The 'captured' spolia opima of Kunwar Singh". Journal of the History of Collections. doi:10.1093/jhc/fhab042...

this victory in 27 BC in Rome but blocked Cassius' entitlement to the Spolia opima and use of the term imperator apparently in favour of his own prestige...

The compound Ianus Quirinus is to be found also in the rite of the spolia opima, a lex regia ascribed to Numa, which prescribed that the third rank spoils...

figure of the Second Punic War, who was five times consul, and won the spolia opima, defeating and killing the Gallic king, Viridomarus, in single combat...

Veientes in single combat and took the spolia opima. In the 3rd century BC; Marcus Claudius Marcellus took the spolia opima from Viridomarus, king of the Gaesatae...

the process, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, the Roman leader, earned the spolia opima by killing Viridomarus in single combat. Plutarch. "Life of Marcellus...

the first temple in Rome) and offered the spoils of the enemy king as spolia opima. According to the Fasti Triumphales, Romulus celebrated a triumph over...

The Romans won the battle, and in the process, Marcellus earned the spolia opima, one of the highest honors in ancient Rome, by killing the king in single...

famous for being the second Roman, after Romulus, to be awarded the spolia opima, Rome's highest military honour, for killing the commander of an enemy...

the Gallic king, Viridomarus, at the Battle of Clastidium, to win the spolia opima, he vowed a temple to Honos and Virtus. He renewed this vow after capturing...

Deldo in single combat. By Roman tradition, he was thus entitled to the Spolia opima, but Octavian blocked the privilege, apparently wishing to downplay the...

109 AD) Tropaeum Alpium (built for Emperor Caesar Augustus c. 6 BC) Spolia opima Gemma Augustea raising a tropaeum War memorial War trophy Thuc. 5.10...

represented symbolically in the hidden character of the forms of the cult. The spolia opima were dedicated by the person who had killed the king or chief of the...

temple dedicated in Rome) and offered the spoils of the enemy king as spolia opima. According to the Fasti Triumphales, Romulus celebrated a triumph over...

located, show Aeneas leading his family from Troy and Romulus holding a Spolia opima. In front of the building, there are bases of what were once statues...

Romulus stripped him of his armour, becoming the first to claim the spolia opima, and vowed to build a temple to Jupiter Feretrius. Antemnae and Crustumerium...

19th century Blockade runners of the American Civil War Prize money Spolia opima, armour and arms a Roman general stripped from the body of an opposing...

challenged by [the Celtiberian] king to a single combat, carried off the spolia opima, the armor and arms stripped from the body of an opposing commander slain...

Banditry Conflict resource Depredation Hijacking Piracy Prize of war Spolia opima, armour and arms a Roman general stripped from the body of an opposing...