Crossword clues for alauda
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Alauda is a genus of larks with four species found across much of Europe, Asia and in the mountains of north Africa, and one species (the Raso lark) endemic to the islet of Raso in the Cape Verde Islands. The current genus name is from Latin alauda, "lark". Pliny the Elder thought the word was originally of Celtic origin.
Usage examples of "alauda".
Tenth, the Fifth Alauda and two fresh legions largely made up of bored veterans, Caesar set out from Placentia at the same moment as his two legates in Further Spain came under siege.
Save for the Fifth Alauda and the Tenth, all the legions he had brought with him to Spain were to be settled in the Further province on generous allotments of very good land taken from Spanish owners who had sided with the Republicans.
Fifth Alauda was to march east with him to the Rhodanus valley, where he intended to settle its men on equally good land.
Two days later, word came that Mark Antony was fast approaching Rome on the Via Valeria with the Legio Alauda, which he put into camp at Tibur, not far away.
By the time the Fifth Alauda and the Seventh had arrived, going the long way under Labienus, Caesar and the Tenth had got to know each other.
Caesar left the rest still standing, erected a strongly fortified camp equipped with one tower tall enough to see into Germania for miles, and garrisoned it with the Fifth Alauda under the command of Gaius Volcatius Tullus.
The scouts came in to report that Belgica was boiling, so the legions were shuffled round again: the Seventh was sent to Caesar, the Thirteenth was shifted to the Bituriges under Titus Sextius, and Trebonius inherited the Fifth Alauda to replace the Seventh at Cenabum.
Trebonius marched up with the Fifth Alauda, the Fourteenth and the Thirteenth.
Keep on trying to make the Gauls see reasonand take the Fifth Alauda with you.
At which precise moment Trebonius marched up with the Fifth Alauda, the Fourteenth and the Thirteenth.
The original eleven legions numbered between the Fifth Alauda and the Fifteenth contributed these five thousand veterans, kitted in new tunics, with new horsehair plumes in their helmets, and carrying staves wreathed in laurelsactual weapons were not allowed.
With the Tenth, the Fifth Alauda and two fresh legions largely made up of bored veterans, Caesar set out from Placentia at the same moment as his two legates in Further Spain came under siege.
She was too old a woman to be Welkin Alauda, but not too old for a Welkin who had lived millions of years outside of time.