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The word "corvus" means raven or crow. The Romans taught the ravens to talk, as in the story where Augustus bought a raven whose owner had taught it to say "Hail, Augustus, the victor". However in popular slang it had a more sinister connotation pertaining to crucifixion. The term "in cruce corvos pascere" meant to be crucified, or "corrorum cibaria" which meant food for the crows.

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The Romans were able to form a strong navy during the first Punic War by building ships based on Carthage's ships The Romans were able to build better ships because they added what?

The Romans made their ship just a bit better by adding a corvus . The corvus was a drawbridge type structure that enabled the Romans to march aboard a Carthaginian ship and battle man to man. This put the Romans' strong army to good use and gave the Romans an edge, which allowed them to win the first Punic War.It's a corvus.


What is a corvus?

A corvus is a device that looks like a plank with a spike on the end that Romans used to overcome Carthaginians in sea battles by essentially turning them into land battles.


What is a Roman Corvus?

A corvus is a device that looks like a plank with a spike on the end that Romans used to overcome Carthaginians in sea battles by essentially turning them into land battles.


How were the. Romans able to overcome the navy of Carthage?

The Romans established a navy with the new tactics of boarding rather than ramming, and so captured Phoenician ships in battle. The corvus (raven beak) boarding plank had a spike which both locked the ships together and allowed the Roman infantry to board and capture. This was adopted because the Romans, who did not have a navy to speak of at the beginning of the First Punic War, built a fleet from scratch. The Roman sailors did not have enough experience to perform the complicated manoeuvre required to ram the enemy ships. The corvus made up for this and brought success in battle. However, it had the drawback of making the ships top heavy. Many ships sank in storms and the Romans lost thousands of lives. The corvus was dropped in the last battle of the war and the Roman fleet won. The Roman navy had come of age. The corvus was never used again. The Roman navy improved so much that in the Second Punic War, the Roman navy was superior to the Carthaginian one even without the corvus.


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The Romans invented the Harpax (crow), a gangplank with a beak on the far end, which, when dropped on an opposing ship's deck, locked both together while the Roman infantry ran over it to board the enemy ship.


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