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This question that I'm being asked today is,

do you think the grass crown was rarely a rare award or it just wasn't written about for whatever reason?

Now, the grass crown, and I did have some connoisseons about answering this question,

because of course, in Latin, the crowns, which are awards that the Romans give for conduct on the battlefield,

are called the coroni.

And so the grass crown is actually called the Corona Gramia. So at this point in our lives in 2022, talking about coronas and things like that as a positive might be a bit triggering.

But anyway, the coronas are these various rewards that the Romans give for different field of things on the conduct on the battlefield.

So the Corona Gramanaia is the grass crown.

It's the rarest.

And it's awarded to a general who saves an entire army.

It's only awarded nine times in the history of the Roman Republic.

And I, to answer the question, yes, I think it is that rare, because for you to be considered

to have rescued an entire army would require a sort of a set of circumstances that

most battles wouldn't reach,

they wouldn't qualify for.

So it's the highest honor.

Several authors talk about how rare it is that we get this.

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