What was the equivalent of "Shoulder Arms, Fire!" for archers in Ancient Rome?
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Presumably a Roman Centurion would have used the Latin word sagittΕ.
CAUTION - I neither speak Latin nor do I study etymology, so what exists in an online Latin translator today may have little or no bearing on the archaic Latin used two millenia ago.
sagitto, no perf., Δtum, 1, v. n. and a. [id.]. Neutr., to discharge arrows, to shoot with arrows (post-Aug. for sagittam jacere, etc.): hos equitare et sagittare docent, Just. 41, 2, 5; Curt. 7, 5, 42; Sol. 19 med.; Vulg. Psa. 10, 2; 63, 4.
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