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The Cohort Battle Line: an illustration of three soldiers of Caesar's army beside a diagram of a legion's ten cohorts in three battle lines
The Cohort Battle Line, hanging print of three soldiers of Caesar's army beside a diagram of a legion's ten cohorts in three battle lines, 18x12″, on a dark wood hanger
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The Cohort Battle Line

Caesar's legions · from 58 BC

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Framed print

  • 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
  • Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
  • Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
  • Shatterproof plexiglass
  • Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included

Hanging print

  • 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
  • Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
  • Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
  • Shatterproof plexiglass
  • Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
  • Sizes: 18x12″ · 24x16″ · 36x24″
  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Medium: Fine art paper
  • Style: Military plate
  • Era: Late Republic
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The Cohort Battle Line: an illustration of three soldiers of Caesar's army beside a diagram of a legion's ten cohorts in three battle lines
The Cohort Battle Line58 BC
Caesar's legions · from 58 BC

Four, Three and Three

Gaius Julius Caesar is our best witness to how a late-republican legion fought. In his account of the battle against the Helvetii near Bibracte in 58 BC, he says he drew up his four veteran legions in a triple line, the triplex acies. In his Civil War he gives the detail: four cohorts of each legion in the first line, three in the second and three in the third.

The lines had different jobs. The front line opened the fight, and the second could move up to support or relieve it. The third was a reserve. Against the Germans of Ariovistus, Caesar says, the young cavalry commander Publius Crassus saw the Roman left giving way and sent in the third line, which turned the battle. Each unit followed its standard, carried by a signifer, and the whole legion followed its eagle, carried by the aquilifer.

The piece

The plate gives the soldiers the left half of the page and the battle line the right. The three figures stand on one ground line, the hand-topped standard and the golden eagle rising above the helmets. Across the page, the cohorts glow red in the first line and darken to black in the reserve, so the eye reads the order of battle from front to back at a glance.

Materia · The materials

Fine art paper, framed or hung.

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Pine frame

Black, dark wood or natural wood, FSC-certified. Framed prints arrive framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included.

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Fine art paper

Framed prints: 200 gsm smooth matte paper, printed in 12 colors with fade-resistant pigment inks.

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Shatterproof plexiglass

Protects the print in transit and on the wall.

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Magnetic wooden hanger

Posters: 250 gsm museum-quality matte paper between pine hangers in black or dark wood. The magnets hold the print, so you can swap it any time.

Size guide

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This piece, to scale, above an 84-inch sofa. Pick a size, or a format and frame above, and the wall follows.

The Cohort Battle Line: an illustration of three soldiers of Caesar's army beside a diagram of a legion's ten cohorts in three battle lines
Sofa · 84″ / 213 cm

Which size?

Sizes are the artwork's. Frames and hangers add a little around the edge.

Above a sofa or bed, art looks best at about two-thirds of the furniture's width, hung 8 to 10 inches above it.

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