[223] _Allectus_ into the Equites Singulares Imperatoris. A date is indicated by his name Ulpius Titius. [224] The soldier bears the name Aurelius, and the style of the monument suggests a third-century date. See below, p. 128, n. 4. [225] _Allectus_ into the Equites Singulares at Rome. [226] The soldier has the Thracian name of Mucapor. [227] Probably a _corps d’élite_ formed originally for the Dacian War and placed afterwards on a permanent footing. In the reign of Antoninus Pius it seems to have been given the title of Ala Illyricorum. [228] The Pannonian to whom D. ii belonged cannot have been enrolled later than 35, and owner of D. ci was probably enrolled earlier still. [229] iii. 14214. [230] Unfortunately the name of the cohort to which the men belonged has been lost. The names of some men of the Cohors II Batavorum are preserved, but without their nationalities. [231] iii. 2016, 4227. The regiment may of course have been sent to Spain and have returned only after a long absence, say with Legio VII Gemina in 69 (Tac. _Hist._ ii. 11). [232] viii. 18084. The majority come from the Eastern provinces. [233] There is evidence for a garrison of at least 25,000 men in the second century, but it probably reached a higher figure. See Appendix I. [234] xiii. 7024, 7025, 7579, D. xxxv. [235] viii. 3101. For the recruiting of Legio III Augusta cf. Cagnat, _L’Armée romaine d’Afrique_, 2nd edition, pp. 287-303. [236] We find the Ala I Ulpia Dromedariorum, the Cohorts I, III, IV, V and VI Ulpia Petraeorum, II and III Ulpia Paflagonum, I and II Ulpia Galatarum, and I Ulpia Sagittariorum all in Cappadocia, Syria, or Palestine in the second century, and only one of this series of regiments, the Cohors III Ulpia Galatarum, can be traced elsewhere. [237] iii. 6580. The non-Egyptians all come from the Eastern provinces, except two from Africa. [238] iii. 14507. 7 come from Dacia, 7 from Pannonia, 5 from Dalmatia, 3 from Thrace, 6 from Macedonia, and 1 from Pergamum. [239] It is impossible to go into this question here. The soldiers mentioned on vi. 31138, who were discharged in 118, must, if they served their full time, have been enrolled before Trajan’s accession. The corps seems to have replaced the old _Germani corporis custodes_, disbanded by Galba; Suet. _Vit. Gal._ 12. [240] In the hundred cases only five men are actually described as _allecti_ from an ala, but the fact may not always have been mentioned on the tombstones. [241] I have taken the first hundred inscriptions on which nationality is recorded, beginning with vi. 3173. [242] The contingents of the two Pannonian and the two Moesian provinces cannot be distinguished, because in a large number of cases the deceased is simply described as Pannonius or Moesus. [243] Using this term to apply only to the contingents of Lugdunensis. The inhabitants of Belgica still appear.