[tarheelswamprat]

Personally I’ve always wondered about the ‘lost eagles’ of the legions of Varros.

I believe Tacitus wrote that two of the eagles were later recovered.

[tarheelswamprat]

Personally I’ve always wondered about the ‘lost eagles’ of the legions of Varros.

I believe Tacitus wrote that two of the eagles were later recovered.

Correction - I should have checked before posting. It was Gibbon's account, and all three eagles were eventually recovered.

[Cicero]

There's an excellent novel about the lost eagles by Ralph Graves, who also wrote "I, Claudius," on which the BBC series was based: