Note 127
From Chapter 26 of the Decline & Fall

——Odothaci Regis opima
Retulit—— Ver. 632.

The opima were the spoils which a Roman general could only win from the king, or general, of the enemy, whom he had slain with his own hands: and no more than three such examples are celebrated in the victorious ages of Rome.

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