Crossword-Solution: SPOLIA 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The great-great-great-grandfather was a mighty man of his hands, marched with the clan in the ‘Forty-five, and returned with _spolia opima_ in the shape of a sword, which he had wrested from an officer in the retreat, and which is in the possession of my correspondent to this day.

When I had taken his weapon—the _spolia opima_, as we said at Mareschal College—I bid him rise, and then discoursed him on the dishonour of such a hasty defeat.

The trunks were filled with his wardrobe, which he displayed for the entertainment of the company, and he freely owned, that it consisted chiefly of the opima spolia taken in battle.

The victor, having won the spolia opima, granted him his life, on condition that he would on his knees supplicate his pardon, acknowledge himself inferior to his conqueror in every virtue and qualification, and promise for the future to merit his favour by submission and respect.

Cluverius places it between the village of Iselvort and the town of Doesborg.] [Footnote 468: The Spolia Opima were the spoils taken from the enemy’s king, or chief, when slain in single combat by a Roman general.