The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial ArmyCheesman, George Leonard
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The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army
Cheesman, George Leonard
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[448] A date without an epigraphical reference refers to a ‘diploma’.
The following abbreviations have been used: E(quitata), M(iliaria),
C(ivium) R(omanorum), V(eteranorum), S(agittariorum), P(ia) F(idelis).
C. H. means that the inscription referred to gives the _cursus honorum_
of an officer.
[449] The inscription cannot be accurately dated, but the regiment was
presumably raised at an early date like others with similar titles.
[450] Inscriptions thus referred to come from the area in Scotland only
effectively occupied between these dates.
[451] The inscription comes from Newstead, which was probably also
occupied from 80 to 100, but the soldier’s name, Aelius, suggests a
later date.
[452] A C. H. mentioning a _praefectus cohortis I Astyrum provinciae
Britanniae_. The regiment is hardly likely to be a third-century
creation.
[453] The _Notitia_ mentions the first cohort, but inscriptions suggest
that it was the second which apparently garrisoned the station referred
to. The reference shows, at any rate, that one of the two survived.
[454] Epigraphical evidence suggests that the Cohors I Frixagorum of
the _Notitia_ is identical with this regiment.
[455] The inscriptions come from Birrens, which was apparently occupied
in the Antonine period. See Professor Haverfield’s note in _Ephemeris
Epigraphica_, ix. p. 613.
[456] Assuming that this is the title represented by the III P … of the
‘diploma’.
[457] The name of the cohort on this inscription is, however, only due
to an emendation of Cichorius, s.v.
[458] Presumably C(ivium) L(atinorum), a unique distinction.
[459] The name is M. Traianius.
[460] Both this and the preceding cohort belong, of course, to early
series.
[461] Regiments which are last mentioned in the diploma of 116 are
included if they cannot be traced in another province.
[462] The regiment is hardly likely to have been raised between 167 and
191.
[463] It can hardly be doubted, however, that several more of the
Numeri Brittonum mentioned on later inscriptions belong to the same
series. See above, p. 86.
[464] In this diploma, of course, the ala has not yet acquired the
title ‘Flavia’. The titles of the Raetian alae are somewhat puzzling,
but it seems possible to distinguish four alae Flaviae.
[465] The name of the regiment is given, but the number has been
restored.
[466] Possibly, however, this is identical with the Cohors I C. R.,
stationed in Germania Superior.
[467] The number of the regiment is given, but the name has been
restored.
[468] The name of the regiment is given, but the number has been
restored.
[469] The number of the regiment is given, but the name has been
restored.
[470] The regiment is not mentioned, but there is a cavalry station
‘Commagena’ in Pannonia Prima.
[471] Included by an emendation of Cichorius.
[472] One of these two cohorts is also mentioned on the D. for 60, 84,
138-46.
[473] The ‘Cohors II Aug….’ of the diploma is either this or II
Augusta Thracum.
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