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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[515] As four Gallic cohorts bear the number II, we may add two others
bearing the number I in addition to the two known to us, and also
another Cohors III to correspond with the third Cohors IV. The total
number of Gallic cohorts raised, including the Cohortes Gallicae, must
have been twenty-four.
[516] Seems to be identical with the Cohors Ligurum E. which appears in
Sardinia and afterwards formed part of the amalgamated Cohors I Ligurum
et Hispanorum in Germania Superior.
[517] Developed out of a _vexillatio equitum Illyricorum_. Cf. p. 157.
[518] Cichorius identifies this with the last ala Pannoniorum,
supposing the title Flavia to have been added as an honorary
distinction. But iii. 3252, which is clearly of second-century date,
mentions an ala Pannoniorum without any additional title.
[519] Developed out of a _numerus Sarmatarum_ organized from the
Sarmatae deported to Britain by Marcus. Cf. vii. 218 and 229.
[520] Not included by Cichorius, but now known from _A. E._ 1905. 162.
[521] See p. 61, n. 3.
[522] See above, p. 157, n. 3.
[523] This inscription is certainly interpolated, but Cichorius
believes in the authenticity of this title.
[524] See _A. E._ 1903. 288. Not mentioned by Cichorius.
[525] Not mentioned by Cichorius and only known from iii. 15184.
[526] Another Ala II Thracum may be assumed to have been sometime in
existence, as two regiments bear the number III.
[527] The only certain mention with full title is in _A. E._ 1911. 161.
For the ascription of this and the following cohort to the garrison of
Syria see above, p. 162, n. 3.
[528] Not included by Cichorius and only mentioned on the Macedonian
diploma for 124, _A. E._ 1909. 105.
[529] Not included by Cichorius and only known from this inscription.
[530] Not included by Cichorius and only known from one inscription,
_A. E._ 1900. 48. The Syrian Cyrrhestis might, of course, be meant, and
the soldier’s birthplace, Beroea, is equally ambiguous, but the fact
that the regiment was in Dalmatia suggests a Macedonian origin.
[531] For this regiment see above, p. 61, n. 7.
[532] Only mentioned in _Not. Dign. Or._ xxviii. 35, without the title
Ulpia, but presumably belongs to the same series as cohorts I and II.
[533] Not included by Cichorius and only known from _A. E._ 1905. 54.
[534] One of these may be the Cohors Cypria mentioned in _A. E._ 1904.
163, and on an inscription from the Crimea, Latyschew ii. 293.
[535] See above, p. 62, n. 6.
[536] One of these two regiments is probably referred to in Arrian,
_Ectaxis_, 1.
[537] Not included by Cichorius. Cf. viii. 21814 a, _A. E._ 1906. 19.
[538] Inscriptions of the first of these cohorts (xiii. 7512, 7513)
show that it was recruited in the East, as probably all were.
[539] If the emendation suggested above, on p. 69, n. 3, be correct, we
should also include a Cohors Seleuciensium.
[540] Arrian, _Ectaxis_, 18, mentions an Ituraean cohort which may be
identical with one of these.
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