The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial ArmyCheesman, George Leonard
History
The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army
Cheesman, George Leonard
Rome -- Army; Rome -- Colonies
[84] I accept, although with some hesitation, the view of Lehner in
_B. J. B._ cxvii against that of von Dom. _Rangordnung_, p. 55. It is
accepted also by Max Mayer, _Vexillum und vexillarius_, Strassburg,
1910. For instances of the title _vexillarius alae_ cf. iii. 4834,
11081. The standard of the Ala Longiniana, discussed by Lehner, was
a _vexillum_ bearing as its device a Celtic religious emblem, the
three-horned bull. The _signum_ of a _turma_ of the Ala Petriana shown
on a sepulchral monument was a radiated head in a medallion. See _J. R.
S._ ii (1912), Fig. 8. Another _signum_ on a Mainz tombstone shows four
ivy leaves hanging from a cross-bar. Cf. _B. J. B._ cxiv-cxv, Pl. I, n.
3.
[85] _A. E._ 1906. 119.
[86] Tac. _Hist._ ii. 89 ‘Quattuor legionum aquilae per frontem
totidemque circa e legionibus aliis vexilla, mox duodecim alarum signa
et post peditum ordines eques; dein quattuor et triginta cohortes, ut
nomina gentium aut species armorum forent, discretae’.
[87] On one of the inscriptions which mentions this officer, iii. 3256,
he is ranked among the mounted men of a _cohors equitata_.
[88] For the position of these officers cf. viii. 21567.
[89] Arrian, _Anab._ vii. 23.
[90] iii. 11911.
[91] viii. 2094 ‘… C. Iulius Dexter vet(eranus), mil(itavit) in ala
eq(ues), cur(ator) turmae, armor(um) custos, signifer tur(mae) …’.
[92] iii. 7651.
[93] iii. 3392.
[94] _I. G. R. R._ iii. 1094.
[95] iii. 4369.
[96] iii. 13441.
[97] iii. 11811. There were of course several of these, and also of the
preceding officers.
[98] iii. 12356.
[99] vi. 225. vi. 2408 also shows seven _equites_ preceding the
_signifer turmae_.
[100] vi. 3179, 32797. Both appear also among the _equites cohortales_,
iii. 3352, 10589.
[101] xi. 3007.
[102] iii. 11213, 8762.
[103] ii. 2553; cf. _A. E._ 1910. 4. A detachment of the Cohors I
Celtiberorum in Lusitania is under the charge of a centurion of the
Cohors I Gallica, a _beneficiarius_ of the procurator, an _imaginifer_
of Legio VII Gemina, and a _tesserarius_ of the Cohors I Celtiberorum.
[104] xiii. 7705.
[105] iii. 10315.
[106] iii. 10316.
[107] vii. 458.
[108] iii. 12602.
[109] iii. 1808. We should perhaps add to this group the _capsarius_,
_A. E._ 1906. 110.
[110] xiii. 6572.
[111] iii. 10589.
[112] iii. 8522. In xiii. 6503 the musicians are described collectively
as _aeneatores_.
[113] xiii. 6538.
[114] vii. 690. He served in the Cohors I Tungrorum.
[115] _Dig._ l. 6, 7.
[116] xi. 3007. His cognomen is uncertain.
[117] xiii. 6621. One might add M. Mucius Hegetor medicus of the Cohors
XXXII Voluntariorum in Pannonia, iii. 10854.
[118] Lucian mentions a doctor of an auxiliary cohort who wrote a
history of the Parthian war of Marcus and Verus and must have been a
man of some education. Lucian, _de hist. conscrib._ 24.
[119] Von Dom. _Rangordnung_, p. 26.
[120] The record of the career of C. Iulius Dexter quoted above is
quite exceptional. Usually only one post is mentioned.
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