Talk:Aquila/@comment-36277500-20190403202559

Some trivia:

Name "Aquila" means "Eagle". Aquilae (eagles) were military symbols of Legions.

Also:

He shares the same cognomen (part of Roman surname) with Pontius Aquila, certain tribune who once offended Caesar, refusing to stand up during Caesar's procession. Such disrespect was reaction to gossips that Caesar wants to become a king, which the latter one didn't contradict. In response to such insolence, Caesar berated him, what worsened their feud. Later Pontius Aquila was one of Caesar's assassins. After Ides of March, he become legate under another conspirator, Decimus Junius Brutus.

I can't totally rule out the possibility that Legate Aquila might be loosely based on real Legate Pontius Aquila - both of them were legates, who strongly opposed Caesar's alleged ambition to become a monarch.