by Aldus Marius on Sun Jun 06, 2004 3:16 am
((( Curio!! )))
Congratulations are, indeed, in order, and you now have mine. You have become one of the Legion's musicians. Specifically, you're the fellow with that magnificent C-shaped horn on your shoulder. You summon the men to breakfast, to drills, to assemblies, to bed, and all the other occasions in their daily lives nowadays commemorated by an Army bugler. Your tones mark the shift changes of the watch; your signals are often the only way the men know what's going on in battle and what they need to be doing there. You have companions, perhaps as many as two per Cohort; some of these are tubicines (sing. tubicen) who blow a straight horn rather than your curved cornu (so called for its resemblance to a ram's horn). You may also perform such administrative tasks as your signifer (standard-bearer; you work for him) may choose to delegate to you.
Again, te gratulor, amice bon'; camp life just wouldn't be the same without you!! >({|;-)
In amicitia,
Aldus Marius Peregrinus.