La Caveja
the symbol of RomagnaDuring the civil revolt the soldiers under Sulla, after having defeated Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, lieutenant of Gaius Marius, in a violent battle between Forlì and Faenza, had torn some of the land beyond the Rubicon from Marius' populares and left a few settlers and veterans with their Roman insignia on the land and the centuriate borders.
These insignia were similar to those of the Sulla legions, mounted on a pole inscribed with SPQR, which was hoisted in the streets and in the centuriate lands, to indicate the Roman senate's new ownership.
On the other hand, Caesar's legionaries, who used to travel with wagons pulled by a couple of oxen, after they took possession of the land, would rebuild and replaced the Roman insignia with those of the Gallic legions,
