APPENDIX II

Previous

This appendix is mainly designed to supplement the table on p. 60, by giving a list of the auxiliary regiments grouped according to the provinces in which they were raised. I have also added for the sake of completeness a further section dealing with the cohortes civium Romanorum, and a few regiments of which we do not know the place of origin. The list thus contains, or is intended to contain, the names of all the auxiliary regiments known to us, and includes far more than existed at any one time. The greater part of this list is, of course, merely a repetition of that drawn up by Cichorius in his articles on ala and cohors contributed to Pauly-Wissowa, and in view of the admirable summary of the evidence there given I have restricted myself to appending to the title of each regiment the name of the province in which it was stationed, or, when this is unknown, a reference to a single inscription mentioning it. Only in cases where I have been able to add to the list a regiment unknown when Cichorius wrote have I added a note on the evidence. The whole may, in fact, be described as a summary of Cichorius’s articles, with a supplement bringing them up to date, and as such may, I hope, be of some value to students of this subject.

As in the list on p. 60, regiments raised before 70 and those of later date are divided into two groups, distinguished by the letters A and B.

Britain.

Alae.
A.

I Flavia Augusta Britannica M.C.R.507

Germania Superior—Pannonia Inferior.

Brittonum V.

Mauretania Caesariensis.

Cohorts.
A.

I Britannica M.C.R.508

Pannonia—Dacia.

I Brittonum M.E.

Pannonia—Dacia.

II Brittonum M.C.R.P.F.

Dacia.

II Brittonum

Mauretania Caesariensis.

III Britannorum

Raetia.

III Brittonum

Dacia.

III Brittonum V.E.

xi. 393.

IV and V Brittonum supposed because of the existence of

VI Brittonum

ii. 2424.

B.

I Flavia Brittonum

Dalmatia—Noricum.

I Ulpia Brittonum M.

Dacia.

I Aelia Brittonum M.

Noricum.

I Augusta Nervia Pacensis Brittonum M.509

Dacia.

I Aurelia Brittonum M.

Dacia.

II Flavia Brittonum

Moesia Inferior.

II Augusta Nervia Pacensis Brittonum M.

Pannonia Inferior.

Belgica.

Alae.
A.

Batavorum

Germania Inferior.

I Canninefatium C.R.

Germania Superior—Pannonia Superior.

Treverorum

Germania Inferior.

Tungrorum Frontoniana

Dalmatia—Pannonia—Dacia.

I Tungrorum

Britain.

B.

I Batavorum M.

Dacia.

Cohorts.
A.

I Batavorum C.R.

Britain.

I-VIII Batavorum M.

The regiments which joined the rebellion of Civilis and were presumably disbanded.

IX Batavorum M.E.

Raetia.

I Belgarum E.

Dalmatia.

I Belgica

Germania Superior.

Cohortes Canninefatium

Joined the rebellion of Civilis and were presumably disbanded in consequence. Cf. Tac. Hist. iv. 19.

I Frisiavonum

Britain.

I Germanorum C.R.

Germania Superior.

I Germanorum M.E.

Cappadocia.

I Lingonum E.

Britain.

II Lingonum E.

Britain.

III Lingonum E.

xi. 5959.

IV Lingonum E.

Britain.

V Lingonum

Dacia.

I Menapiorum

Britain.

I Morinorum

Britain.

Nemetum

Germania Superior.

I Nerviorum

Britain.

II Nerviorum

Britain.

III Nerviorum C.R.

Britain.

IV and V Nerviorum C.R. supposed on account of the existence of

VI Nerviorum C.R.

Britain.

I Sequanorum et Rauracorum E.

Germania Superior.

I Sugambrorum V.E.

Moesia Inferior—Syria.

I Claudia Sugambrorum

Moesia Inferior—Syria.510

II and III Sugambrorum supposed on account of the existence of

IV Sugambrorum

Mauretania Caesariensis.

I Sunucorum

Britain.

I Tungrorum M.

Germania Inferior—Britain.

II Tungrorum M.E.C.L.

Germania Inferior—Britain.

Cohortes Ubiorum

Germania Inferior, cf. Tac. Hist. iv. 28.

I Ubiorum

Moesia Inferior—Dacia.

Usiporum

Tac. Agr. 28.

I Vangionum M.E.

Germania Superior—Britain.

B.

I Batavorum M.

Pannonia—Dacia.

I Batavorum

Britain.

II Batavorum M.

Pannonia.

III Batavorum M.

Pannonia Inferior.511

I Septimia Belgarum

Germania Superior.

I Ulpia Traiana Cugernorum

Britain.

I Nervana Germanorum M.

Britain.

I Mattiacorum supposed on account of the existence of

II Mattiacorum

Moesia Inferior.

I Treverorum supposed on account of the existence of

II Treverorum

Germania Superior.512

Lugdunensis.

Alae.
A.

Gallorum Flaviana

Moesia Inferior.

Gallorum Indiana

Germania Inferior—Britain—Germania Superior.

Augusta Gallorum PetrianaM.

Germania Superior—Britain.

Augusta Gallorum Proculeiana

Britain.

Gallorum V.

Egypt.

I Flavia Gallorum Tauriana513

Gaul.

I Claudia Gallorum

Moesia Inferior.

I Gallorum et Bosporanorum

Dacia.

I Gallorum et Pannoniorum

Moesia Inferior.

II Gallorum Sebosiana

Germania Superior—Britain.

II Gallorum

Cappadocia.

The majority of the following regiments, which bear titles derived from personal names, can be shown to have received recruits from the Gallic provinces, where it is probable that all were originally raised.

Agrippiana

Germania Superior—Britain.

II Flavia Agrippiana514

Syria.

Apriana

Egypt.

Atectorigiana

Moesia Inferior.

Classiana

Germania Inferior—Britain.

Longiniana

Germania Inferior.

Patrui

ix. 733.

Picentiana

Germania Superior.

Pomponiani

Germania Inferior.

Rusonis

Germania Superior.

Sabiniana

Britain.

Scaevae

x. 6011.

Siliana C.R.

Africa—Pannonia.

Sulpicia

Germania Inferior.

Cohorts.
A.

I Gallica C.R.E.

Tarraconensis.

II Gallica

Tarraconensis.

I Gallorum

Aquitania.

I Gallorum Dacica

Dacia.

II Gallorum

Moesia Inferior.

II Gallorum Macedonica E.

Moesia Superior—Dacia.

II Gallorum

Mauretania Caesariensis.

II Gallorum E.

Britain.

III Gallorum

Germania Superior—Moesia Inferior.

III Gallorum

Spain.

IV Gallorum

Moesia Inferior.

IV Gallorum

Raetia.

IV Gallorum

Britain.

V Gallorum

Pannonia—Moesia Superior.

V Gallorum

Britain.

VI Gallorum

vi. 1449.

VII Gallorum

Moesia Inferior.

VIII, IX, and X Gallorum supposed on account of the existence of

XI Gallorum515

Dalmatia.

Aquitania.

Alae.

None.

Cohorts.
A.

I Aquitanorum V.E.

Germania Superior.

I Aquitanorum

Germania Superior—Britain.

II Aquitanorum E.

Germania Superior—Raetia.

III Aquitanorum E.C.R.

Germania Superior.

IV Aquitanorum E.C.R.

Germania Superior.

I Biturigum

Germania Superior.

II Biturigum

xiii. 6812.

Narbonensis.

Alae.
A.

Augusta Vocontiorum

Germania Inferior—Britain.

Vocontiorum

Egypt.

Cohorts.

None.

Alpes. (All the little Alpine provinces.)

Alae.
A.

Vallensium.

Germania Superior.

Cohorts.
A.

I Alpinorum

Pannonia Inferior.

I Alpinorum E.

Pannonia Inferior.

I Alpinorum E.

Dacia.

I Alpinorum

Britain.

II Alpinorum E.

Pannonia Superior.

III Alpinorum E.

Dalmatia.

I Ligurum516

Alpes Maritimae—Germania Superior.

II Gemina Ligurum et Corsorum

Sardinia.

I Montanorum

Noricum—Pannonia—Dacia.

I Montanorum C.R.

Pannonia Inferior.

I Montanorum

Palestine.

Trumplinorum

v. 4910.

Raetia.

Alae.

None.

Cohorts.
A.

I Helvetiorum

Germania Superior.

I Raetorum

Raetia.

I Raetorum E.

Cappadocia.

II Raetorum C.R.

Germania Superior.

II Raetorum

Raetia.

Two cohorts III Raetorum supposed on account of the existence of

IV Raetorum E.

Cappadocia.

IV Raetorum

Moesia Superior.

V Raetorum

viii. 8934.

VI Raetorum

Germania Superior.

VII Raetorum E.

Germania Superior.

VIII Raetorum C.R.

Pannonia—Dacia.

Raetorum et Vindelicorum

Germania Superior.

I Vindelicorum M.

Dacia.

II and III Vindelicorum supposed on account of the existence of

IV Vindelicorum

Germania Superior.

B.

I Aelia Gaesatorum M.

Dacia.

Noricum.

Alae.
A.

Noricorum

Germania Superior.

Cohorts.
A.

I Noricorum

Pannonia Inferior.

Pannonia.

Alae.
A.

I Pannoniorum

Africa.

I Pannoniorum

Moesia Inferior.

I Pannoniorum Tampiana

Britain.

II Pannoniorum

Dacia.

Pannoniorum

Pannonia Superior.

B.

I Illyricorum517

Dacia.

Flavia Pannoniorum518

Pannonia Inferior.

Sarmatarum519

Britain.

Cohorts.
A.

I Breucorum

Raetia.

II Breucorum

Mauretania Caesariensis.

III Breucorum

ix. 4753.

IV Breucorum

Britain.

V Breucorum

Noricum.

VI Breucorum520

Moesia Superior.

VII Breucorum

Pannonia Inferior.

VIII Breucorum

xiii. 7801.

I Pannoniorum

Germania Superior—Britain.

I Pannoniorum

Mauretania Caesariensis.

I Augusta Pannoniorum

Egypt.

I Pannoniorum et Dalmatarum

x. 5829.

II Pannoniorum

Britain.

III Pannoniorum

Britain.

IV Pannoniorum

iii. 12631, ix. 3924.

I Varcianorum supposed on account of the existence of

II Varcianorum

Germania Inferior.

B.

I Ulpia Pannoniorum M.E.

Pannonia Superior.

Dalmatia.

Alae.

None.

Cohorts.
A.

I Dalmatarum

Britain.

II Dalmatarum

Britain.

III Dalmatarum

Germania Superior.

IV Dalmatarum

Germania Superior.

V Dalmatarum

Germania Superior.

VI Dalmatarum E.

Mauretania Caesariensis.

VII Dalmatarum E.

Mauretania Caesariensis.

B.

I Dalmatarum M.521

Dalmatia.

II Dalmatarum M.

Dalmatia.

III Dalmatarum M.E.C.R.

Dacia.

IV Dalmatarum M.

iii. 1474.

Moesia.

Alae.
A.

Bosporanorum522

Syria—Dacia.

B.

I Vespasiana Dardanorum

Moesia Inferior.

Cohorts.
A.

Bosporanorum M.

Cappadocia.

I Bosporiana

Pannonia Superior

II Bosporanorum

x. 270.523

B.

I Aurelia Dardanorum

Moesia Superior.

II Aurelia Dardanorum M.E.524

Moesia Superior.

Dacia.

Alae.
B.

I Ulpia Dacorum

Cappadocia.

Cohorts.
B.

I Ulpia Dacorum

Syria.

I Aelia Dacorum M.

Britain.

II Augusta Dacorum

Pannonia.

Dacorum

Syria.

I Aurelia Dacorum supposed on account of the existence of

II Aurelia Dacorum

Pannonia Superior.525

Thrace.

Alae.
A.

Thracum Herculania

Syria.

I Augusta Thracum

Raetia.

I Thracum

Germania Inferior—Britain.

I Thracum Mauretana

Egypt.

I Thracum V.S.

Pannonia Inferior.

I Thracum Victrix

Pannonia Superior.

II Augusta Thracum526

Mauretania Caesariensis.

III Augusta Thracum S.

Pannonia Superior.

III Thracum

Syria.

Cohorts.
A.

I Augusta Thracum E.

Pannonia Inferior.

I Thracum Germanica C.R.E.

Germania Superior—Pannonia Superior.

I Thracum M.

Palestine.

I Thracum S.

Dacia.

I Thracum E.

Pannonia Inferior.

I Thracum Syriaca

Palestine—Moesia Superior.

I Thracum

Germania Inferior—Britain.

II Augusta Thracum

Pannonia Inferior.

II Gemella Thracum

Africa.

II Thracum Syriaca

Syria.

II Thracum E.

Egypt.

II Thracum E.

Britain.

III Thracum V.

Raetia.

III Thracum C.R.

Raetia.

III Augusta Thracum E.

Syria.

III Thracum Syriaca527

Syria.

IV Thracum Syriaca

Syria.

IV Thracum E.

Germania Superior.

V Thracum supposed on account of the existence of

VI Thracum

Germania Superior—Britain—Pannonia—Dacia.

B.

I Flavia Bessorum528

Macedonia.

II Flavia Bessorum

Moesia Inferior.

Macedonia.

Alae.

None.

Cohorts.
A.

Macedonum E.529

A. E. 1908. 58.

I Cyrrhesticorum supposed on account of the existence of

II Cyrrhesticorum530

Dalmatia.

Galatia.

Alae.
A.

VII Phrygum531

Syria.

Cohorts.
B.

I Ulpia Galatarum

Palestine.

II Ulpia Galatarum

Palestine.

III Ulpia Galatarum532

Egypt.

I Ulpia Paflagonum supposed on account of the existence of

II Ulpia Paflagonum

Syria.

III Ulpia Paflagonum

Syria.

Cilicia.

Alae.

None.

Cohorts.
A.

I Cilicum

Moesia Inferior.

II Cilicum supposed on account of the existence of

III Cilicum533

Egypt.

B.

I Flavia Cilicum E.

Egypt.

Cyprus.

Alae.

None.

Cohorts.
A.

I, II, and III Cypria534 supposed on account of the existence of

IV Cypria

Dacia.

Crete and Cyrenaica.535

Alae.

None.

Cohorts.
A.

I Cretum

Moesia Superior.

I Cyrenaica

Germania Superior.

II Augusta Cyrenaica

Germania Superior.

III Cyrenaica S.

A. E. 1896. 10.

III Augusta Cyrenaica

RÖmische Mitteilungen, iii. 77.536

Syria.

Alae.
A.

Hamiorum537

Mauretania Tingitana.

I Augusta Parthorum

Mauretania Caesariensis.

Parthorum V.

xiii. 10024³5.

B.

I Commagenorum

Egypt—Noricum.

Cohorts.
A.

I Antiochensium

Moesia Superior.

I Apamenorum S.E.

Egypt.

I Chalcidenorum E.

Africa.

II Chalcidenorum

Moesia Inferior.

III and IV Chalcidenorum supposed on account of the existence of

V Chalcidenorum

Syria.

I Damascenorum

Palestine.

I Hamiorum

Britain.

II Hamiorum

viii. 10654.

I Hemesenorum M.S.E.C.R.

Pannonia Inferior.

I Sagittariorum

Germania Superior—Dacia (?).

II Sagittariorum supposed on account of the existence of

III Sagittariorum538

iii. 335, xiv. 3935.

I Tyriorum539

Moesia Inferior.

B.

I Flavia Canathenorum M.

Raetia.

I Flavia Chalcidenorum S.E.

Syria.

I Flavia Commagenorum

Dacia.

II Flavia Commagenorum

Dacia.

III, IV, and V Commagenorum supposed on account of the existence of

VI Commagenorum

Africa.

I Flavia Damascenorum M.E.

Germania Superior.

I Ulpia Sagittariorum E.

Syria.

I Aelia Sagittariorum M.E.

Pannonia Superior.

I Nova Surorum M.S.

Pannonia Inferior.

Palestine.

Alae.
A.

I Augusta Ituraeorum

Pannonia Inferior.

Sebastenorum

Palestine—Mauretania Caesariensis.

Cohorts.
A.

I Ascalonitanorum Felix E.

Syria.

I Augusta Ituraeorum S.

Pannonia—Dacia.

I Ituraeorum

Germania Superior—Dacia.

II Ituraeorum E.

Egypt.

III Ituraeorum

Egypt.

IV, V, and VI540 Ituraeorum supposed on account of the existence of

VII Ituraeorum

Egypt.

I Sebastenorum M.

Palestine.

Arabia.

Alae.
B.

I Ulpia Dromedariorum M.541

Syria.

Cohorts.
B.

I Ulpia Petraeorum M.E.542

Syria.

II Ulpia Petraeorum M.E.

xi. 5669.

III Ulpia Petraeorum M.E.

Cappadocia.

IV Ulpia Petraeorum543

Palestine.

V Ulpia Petraeorum E.

Syria.

VI Ulpia Petraeorum543

Palestine.

Egypt.

Alae.

None.

Cohorts.
A.

I Thebaeorum E.

Egypt.

II Thebaeorum

Egypt.

Africa.

Alae.
A.

Afrorum

Germania Inferior.

Gaetulorum V.

Palestine.

B.

I Ulpia Afrorum supposed on account of the existence of

II Ulpia Afrorum

Egypt.

I Flavia Gaetulorum

Moesia Inferior.

Cohorts.
A.

I Afrorum C.R.E.544

x. 5841.

I Cirtensium supposed on account of the existence of

II Cirtensium

Mauretania Caesariensis.

I Cisipadensium

Moesia Superior.

I Gaetulorum

viii. 7039.

B.

I Flavia Afrorum supposed on account of the existence of

II Flavia Afrorum545

Africa.

I Ulpia Afrorum E.

Egypt.

I Flavia Musulamiorum

Mauretania Caesariensis.

I Flavia Numidarum

Lycia.

II Flavia Numidarum

Dacia.

Mauretania.

Alae.

None.

Cohorts.546
B.

Maurorum M.

Africa.

Maurorum M.

Pannonia Inferior.

Maurorum Quingenaria

Pannonia Inferior.

Tarraconensis.547

Alae.
A.

I Arvacorum

Pannonia Superior.

II Arvacorum

Moesia Inferior.

I Asturum

Britain.

I Asturum

Moesia Inferior.

II Asturum

Britain.

III Asturum

xi. 3007.

I Hispanorum Campagonum

Dacia.

I Hispanorum

Germania Superior—Dacia.

I Hispanorum Auriana

Noricum.

I Lemavorum

Tarraconensis.

I Hispanorum Vettonum C.R.

Britain.

B.

II Flavia Hispanorum

Spain.

Cohorts.
A.

I Asturum

Germania Superior—Britain.

I Asturum

Noricum.

II Asturum

Germania Inferior—Britain.

III Asturum

Mauretania Tingitana.

IV Asturum supposed on account of the existence of

V Asturum

Germania Inferior.

VI Asturum

ii. 2637.

I Asturum et Callaecorum548

Mauretania Tingitana.

II Asturum et Callaecorum

Pannonia Inferior.

I Ausetanorum

ii. 1181.

IBracaraugustanorum

Moesia Inferior.

IIBracaraugustanorum

vi. 1838.

IIIBracaraugustanorum

Britain.

IIIBracaraugustanorum

Raetia.

IIIBracaraugustanorum549

Palestine.

IVBracaraugustanorum

Palestine.

VBracaraugustanorum

Raetia.

I Cantabrorum supposed on account of the existence of

II Cantabrorum

Palestine.

Carietum et Veniaesum

v. 4373.

I Celtiberorum

Spain.

I Celtiberorum

Britain.

II Celtiberorum supposed on account of the existence of

III Celtiberorum

Spain.

I Hispanorum

Dacia.

I Hispanorum V.E.

Moesia Inferior.

I Hispanorum E.

Britain.

I Hispanorum E.

Egypt.

II Hispanorum

Germania Superior.

II Hispanorum Scutata Cyrenaica

Dacia.

II Hispanorum E.

Africa.

II Hispanorum E.

Cappadocia.

III Hispanorum

Germania Superior.

IV Hispanorum

Dacia.

V Hispanorum

Germania Superior—Moesia Superior.

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 C.R.E.

Britain.

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 Lusitanorum E.

Egypt.

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 Lusitanorum551

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:

I Ingenuorum C.R.552

v. 3936.

IV Voluntariorum C.R.

Pannonia Superior.

VI Ingenuorum C.R.

Germania Inferior.

VIII Voluntariorum C.R.

Dalmatia.

XIII Voluntariorum C.R.

iii. 6321.

XV Voluntariorum C.R.

Germania Inferior.

XVIII Voluntariorum C.R.

Pannonia Superior.

XIX Voluntariorum C.R.

vii. 383.

XXIII Voluntariorum C.R.

Pannonia Superior.

XXIV Voluntariorum C.R.

Germania Superior.

XXVI Voluntariorum C.R.553

Germania Superior.

XXX Voluntariorum C.R.

Germania Superior.

XXXII Voluntariorum C.R.

Germania Superior.

The following regiments seem to have a similar character, although we know nothing concerning the occasion of their creation:

I Italica Voluntariorum C.R.

xiv. 171.

II Italica Voluntariorum C.R.M.

Cappadocia.

I Campanorum Voluntariorum C.R.554

Dalmatia—Pannonia Inferior.

Lastly, a series of at least seven regiments bearing the inexplicable title of Campestris, of which only the following have left traces:

III Campestris

Dacia.

VII Campestris

Syria.

The following three regiments should perhaps be included in the same category:

Ala I C.R.

Pannonia Inferior.

Cohors Apuleia C.R.

Cappadocia.

Cohors I Lepidiana C.R.

Moesia Inferior.

In a final section I have grouped together regiments which bear non-ethnical titles, and a few cases of ethnical titles which are at present inexplicable, owing to our ignorance of the situation of the tribes referred to. In the former case it must, however, be remembered that many of these regiments may have had ethnical titles which are not mentioned in the only references to them which we possess.

Alae.

Augusta

Noricum.

Augusta555

Moesia Inferior.

Augusta556

Egypt.

Augusta C.R.

Pannonia Inferior.

Augusta Germanica

Pisidia.557

Augusta Moesica

Germania Inferior.

Augusta Syriaca

Syria.

Augusta ob virtutem appellata558

Britain.

Claudia Nova

Dalmatia—Germania Superior—Moesia Inferior.

I Augusta Gemina Colonorum

Cappadocia.

Constantium559

A. E. 1911. 107.

I Ulpia Contariorum M.C.R.

Pannonia Superior.

Flavia

Africa.

I Flavia Fidelis M.

Raetia.

I Flavia Gemelliana

Raetia.

I Flavia Gemina

Germania Superior.

I Flavia Singularium C.R.

Raetia.

II Flavia M.

Raetia.

Miliaria

Mauretania Caesariensis.

Miliaria

Dacia.

I Augusta Nerviana M.

Mauretania Caesariensis.

I Praetoria C.R.

Syria.

Scubulorum

Germania Superior.

I Ulpia Singularium

Syria.

Tautorum Victrix

Tarraconensis.

II Ulpia Auriana560

Cappadocia.

Cohorts.

Aelia Expedita

viii. 9358.

I Augusta

Syria.

II Augusta supposed on account of the existence of

III Augusta561

vi. 3508.

Baetica

v. 5127.

I Classica

Germania Inferior.

I Aelia Classica

Britain.

II Classica

Syria.

Claudia E.

Cappadocia.

III Coll…

Moesia Inferior.

I Dongonum supposed on account of the existence of

II Dongonum

Britain.

The Lollianus inscription (iii. 600) mentions a mysteriously named Cohors II Equitum, which seems also to be referred to on an Italian inscription (v. 2841) as Cohors II Equitatum. The Cohors VI Equestris mentioned by Pliny (Ep. ad Tra. 106) may belong to the same series. The best explanation of these curious titles is to suppose that they are all varieties of equitata.

I Flavia E.

Africa.

I Flavia E.

Germania Inferior.

Flaviana562

C.I.G. 3615.

V Gemina

Palestine.

I Latabiensium

Germania Inferior.

Maritima

ii. 2224.

Miliaria

Syria.

Naut…

Alpes Maritimae.

I Augusta Nerviana Velox

Mauretania Caesariensis.

I Nurritanorum

Mauretania Caesariensis.

Scutata C.R.

Egypt.

I Aelia Singularium

Mauretania Caesariensis.

I Ulpia supposed on account of the existence of

II Ulpia E.C.R.

Syria.

This last section completes our survey of the auxiliary forces of the Empire so far as they are known to us, and it is some satisfaction to feel that so far as the mere names of the regiments go our knowledge is now approaching completion. The recently discovered diploma for Moesia Superior (A. E. 1912. 128), which gave the names of twenty-four regiments which were stationed in the province in 103, did not mention one previously unknown to us, and a glance at the AnnÉe Épigraphique for the past ten years will show how rarely a fresh name appears among the numerous inscriptions dealing with the auxilia. This knowledge does not, of course, carry us very far; while so many regiments are merely known to us by name from one or two casual inscriptions, we can tell neither the total number of auxilia maintained at any one time nor the relative strength of the frontier garrisons, and a host of minor problems are even further from solution. The very fact, however, that new evidence is now so slow to accumulate seemed to justify the attempt to utilize the available material and state summarily such conclusions as are at present attainable on a subject of some interest and importance to all students of the Roman Empire.


507 Seems to be identical with the regiment mentioned in Tac. Hist. iii. 41, and was therefore in existence before the Flavian period.

508 It does not seem possible to make any distinction, chronological or otherwise, between the titles Britannica, Britannorum, and Brittonum.

509 Not recognized by Cichorius, but see above, p. 158, n. 1. The meaning of the title is obscure, but such an elaborate form is not likely to be early.

510 On the reason for distinguishing between these two regiments see above, p. 162, n. 2.

511 See above, p. 60, n. 2.

512 Apparently a late creation, possibly raised by Severus Antoninus. Cf. xiii. 7616, and Cichorius s.v.

513 Was in existence before the Flavian period. Cf. Tac. Hist. i. 59.

514 Assuming, as seems most probable, that this regiment was raised, like the others, at an early date and only acquired the title Flavia as an honorary distinction.

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.

541 This, at least, seems the most likely province for it to have been raised in. This regiment, not included by Cichorius, is only mentioned in the Syrian diploma for 157.

542 It is not mentioned as miliaria, but is conjectured to have been so on the analogy of cohorts II and III.

543 The title Ulpia is not given in these two cases, but the regiments obviously belonged to the same series and were probably also equitatae.

544 Probably identical with the ‘Cohors Afrorum in Dacia’ mentioned in vi. 3529.

545 Not included by Cichorius, and only mentioned in A. E. 1909. 104, an inscription dating from the end of the second century.

546 There is no reason why these regiments should not have been raised between 40 and 70, but they do not appear on inscriptions until much later.

547 Some of the cohorts and alae of Hispani may, of course, have been raised in Baetica.

548 On some difficult points connected with this regiment see Cagnat, L’armÉe romaine d’Afrique, p. 258 (2nd edition).

549 From the existence of three cohorts bearing the number III, we may assume two more with the number I, and two with the number II, of which as yet no evidence exists.

550 This regiment is, however, possibly identical with the preceding.

551 Not included by Cichorius, and only mentioned on a Greek inscription, which is probably of second-century date, I.G.R.R. iii. 56.

552 Probably identical with the Cohors I C.R., which appears in Germania Superior. The Cohors II C.R. which formed part of the garrison of the same province according to ix. 2958 probably also belongs to this series.

553 xiii. 6306 may refer to Cohors XXV, but it is probable that the final stroke is omitted, and that Cohors XXVI was meant.

554 On this regiment see above, p. 65, n. 6.

555 Possibly identical with the Ala Augusta Moesica.

556 Possibly identical with the Ala Augusta Syriaca.

557 See J.R.S. ii. (1912), p. 99.

558 This regiment has no early inscriptions, and is probably identical with one of the other British alae, possibly the Ala Petriana, which renounced its original title in favour of this honorific appellation.

559 Not included by Cichorius. This regiment is probably either a late formation, or possessed also an ethnical title omitted on this inscription.

560 The title is probably connected in some way with that of the Ala I Hispanorum Auriana which was stationed in Raetia.

561 Here again, however, an ethnical title may well have been omitted.

562 Possibly a Gallic regiment on the analogy of the Ala Gallorum Flaviana.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Clyx.com


Top of Page
Top of Page