The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial ArmyCheesman, George Leonard
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The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army
Cheesman, George Leonard
Rome -- Army; Rome -- Colonies
VI Hispanorum xi. 4376.
I Lucensium E. Dalmatia—Syria.
I Lucensium Hispanorum Germania Inferior.
II Lucensium Moesia Inferior.
III Lucensium Spain.
IV Lucensium Syria.
V Lucensium et Callaecorum Pannonia Superior.
I Fida Vardullorum M. E. C. R. Britain.
I Vasconum supposed on account of the existence of
II Hispanorum Vasconum Britain.
C. R. E.
B. I Flavia Hispanorum Mauretania Caesariensis.
I Flavia Hispanorum M. E. Moesia Superior.
I Flavia Ulpia Hispanorum
M. E. C. R.[550] Dacia.
I Aelia Hispanorum M. E. Britain.
LUSITANIA.
_Alae._
None.
_Cohorts._
A. I Augusta Praetoria Egypt.
Lusitanorum E.
I Lusitanorum Pannonia Inferior.
I Lusitanorum Cyrenaica Moesia Inferior.
II Lusitanorum E. Egypt.
III Lusitanorum E. Germania Inferior—Pannonia
Inferior.
IV and V Lusitanorum supposed on account of the existence of
VI Lusitanorum[551] Raetia.
VII Lusitanorum E. Africa—Raetia.
SARDINIA AND CORSICA.
_Alae._
None.
_Cohorts._
A. I Corsorum C. R. Mauretania Caesariensis.
I Corsorum Sardinia.
I Sardorum Sardinia.
II Sardorum E. Mauretania Caesariensis.
B. I Gemina Sardorum et Corsorum Sardinia.
II Gemina Ligurum et Corsorum Sardinia.
These last two regiments seem to have been formed by amalgamating the
cohorts I Corsorum, I Sardorum, and I Ligurum, which appear in Sardinia
in the pre-Flavian period, but not later.
COHORTES VOLUNTARIORUM AND OTHER REGIMENTS OF ROMAN CITIZENS.
The character of these regiments has already been discussed on pp.
65-7, where the origin of the greater number, at any rate, was traced
to the exceptional levies made during the Pannonian revolt of 6-9, and
after the defeat of Varus in the latter year. This levy included not
only free-born Roman citizens, _ingenui_, but also freedmen enrolled
in _cohortes voluntariorum_. The latter form a series numbered up to
thirty-two, which may have included the _cohortes ingenuorum_. The
latter may, however, have been numbered separately, and it must be
admitted that the presence of a Cohors IV Voluntariorum is rather
against the hypothesis, previously advanced, that the first six
numbers of the series were reserved for the _ingenui_. It is impossible
to argue from the fact that a _cohors voluntariorum_ and a _cohors
ingenuorum_ never appear bearing the same numbers, since the series has
many gaps, and only the following regiments can be traced:
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