aquilam

aquilam is a Latin form of aquila, meaning “eagle; standard of a legion”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 36 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.25.3: Atque nostris militibus cunctantibus, maxime propter altitudinem maris, qui X legionis aquilam gerebat, obtestatus deos, ut ea res legioni feliciter eveniret, ' desilite', inquit, ' milites, nisi vultis a …

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 10.33.4: … ero, cum castra quoque Antoni cepisset, a quinta legione concisam esse; ibi Hirtium quoque perisse et Pontium Aquilam; dici etiam Octavianum cecidisse (quae si, quod di prohibeant! vera sunt, non mediocriter doleo); Antonium tu …

All forms of aquila (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.