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VIRIATHUS
In 147 b.C., thousands of Lusitanian warriors found themselves surrounded by the military forces of magistrate Caio Vetílio. At first this seemed like just another Roman attempt to seize the Iberian Península in the on going war in which the Roman Republic had led for years. But pursued by the enemy, the Lusitanians elect one of their own and hand him absolute power. Born in Lobriga, Lusitania, Lorica for the Romans, current Loriga in Portugal, this man, who for seven will taunt the Romans, is called Viriathus. Between 147 and 139, the year in which he was killed (murder by Romans, he was assassinated while sleeping), Viriathus successively defeated Roman armies, led a greater part of the iberian peoples into revolt and was responsible for the beginning of the war of Numância. After the murder, the Lusitanian guerrilla was continued to resist, "the women boke arms with the men, who died wiht a will,not a man of them showing his back,or uttering a cry. Of the women who were captured some killed themselves, others slew their children also with their own hands, considering death preferable to captivity". Viriathus, is considered the first Lusian figure, and also national hero in Portugal. It was born without a doubt in the Hermínius, current Serra da Estrela, wehere he was shepherd since child, more precisely in Lobriga, Lorica for the Romans,current Loriga, in Portugal. Viriathus, was praised had to is great qualities human beings, and of great strategist to military and diplomat, inclusively for the old Romans historians. Viriathus, proved that at the time, such as today, the individual capacities do not depend on the social estratum nor of the academical qualifications. Viriathus, was only one shepherd, accustomed since child to cover mountains of the heart of the Lusitania. Rome, the superpower of the time, only obtained to arrange away it to win,resort to the shameful and dishonourable treason coward! Curiously, it was after an act of high treason of the part of the Romans, wich cost the life the thousand of disarmed Lusitanians, that Viriathus was elect to leader for is compatriots. Viriathus, leader that it directed with efectiveness the resistence of the Lusitanians, ancestors of the Portugueses, against a a powerful invader, is considered since its time an example to follow. Viriathus, was a true military genious, politician and diplomat. But, moreover, he was the defender of a world asphyxiated by the great Roman dominion. The world in which he very roots of Portugal are implanted. Viriathus, is a real portuguese national hero.
Viriathus, Lusitanian Portuguese national hero. Viriathus was born in Loriga, Portugal. Locality existing for over 2600 years on the hill between streams, traditionally referred to as the cradle of Viriathus, parish since the Visigothic era and vila since the 12th century, LORIGA also has an extraordinary beauty. The Romans called Lorica (Latin word for warrior harness) from which Loriga derived that has exactly the same meaning. A rare case in Portugal of a toponym that has been in existence for more than 2000 years, origin of the demonym loricense / loriguense and the main part of the coat of arms of the town.
Vila desde o século XII, o seu brasão ostenta uma loriga, duas rodas hidráulicas e uma estrela.
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