The inference that the rules were found in the Libri pontificum is inevitable in any case, but seems proved by the fact that one of them, that relating to the spolia opima, is stated by Festus, p.
By far the most remarkable object in the triumph was Cossus, bearing the spolia opima of the king he had slain.
Following all the Roman writers, I have represented Aulus Cornelius Cossus as a military tribune, when he carried the second spolia opima to the temple of Jupiter Feretrius.
Cornelius Cossus, having killed Tolumnius, king of the Veientes, offers the second spolia opima.
But the most common story runs that those spoils alone are spolia opima which are taken at a pitched battle, and first of all, and by the general of the one side from the general of the other.
The word for ordinary spoils is spolia, but for these spolia opima.
The +spolia opima+ (spoils of honour) were the arms taken on the field of battle by the victorious from the vanquished general.
Cornelius Cossus, one of the Military Tribunes, and his arms dedicated to Jupiter, the second of the three instances in which the Spolia Opima were won (B.
Marcellus slew with his own hand Viridomarus, the chief of the Insubrian Gauls, and thus gained the third Spolia Opima.
Romulus slew with his own hand Acron, king of Cænina, and dedicated his arms and armor, as spolia opima, to Jupiter.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spolia opima" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
