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    The equites singulares Augusti or equites singulares Imperatoris (lit: "personal cavalry of the emperor" i.e. imperial horseguards) were the cavalry arm...
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    close protection security detail with the Singulares/equites singulares Augusti (modelled on the Singulares of a provincial governor, a post held by Trajan)...
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  • navales – Two men elected to equip and repair the Roman navy. Equites singulares Augusti – Elite cavalry unit tasked to guard the Roman Emperors. Usually...
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    Roman Emperor Constantine the Great as a replacement for the equites singulares Augusti, the cavalry arm of the Praetorian Guard. The Scholae survived...
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  • as cavalrymen. The presence of equites in the Roman cavalry diminished steadily in the period 200–88 BC as only equites could serve as the army's senior...
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    for their indirect successors, the Emperor's horse guards, the Equites singulares Augusti. A Batavian contingent was used in an amphibious assault on Ynys...
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    Augustus. He doubled the size of the imperial escort cavalry, the equites singulares Augusti, to 2,000 by drawing select detachments from alae on the borders...
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    in Rome for the mounted bodyguard of the Roman emperors (the Equites singulares Augusti). The Castra Nova was so-called because it was the newer of the...
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    Jupiter Dolichenus on behalf of the well-being (salus) of the emperors, to Sol Invictus and the Genius of the military unit equites singulares Augusti...
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  • number of horsemen. Traianus created the Imperial horseguards, the Equites Singulares Augusti, formed from his proconsular horseguard he had when he was the...
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  • soldier and commander of Roman Emperor Hadrian's horse guards, the equites singulares Augusti, during the early 2nd century. Viator served as a centurion in...
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    basilica was constructed for the Pope in the former barracks of the Equites singulares Augusti, the cavalry arm of the Praetorian Guard. (Constantine had disbanded...
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    known as Domus Faustae or "House of Fausta" by this time; the equites singulares Augusti had supported Maxentius against Constantine. He commissioned the...
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    Imperial Roman Army in Ancient Rome, from 27 BC – 312 AD. The Equites singulares Augusti, Imperial Horse Guards of the Roman Emperors Jovians and Herculians...
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    eventually promoted to commander of the emperor's horse guards, the equites singulares Augusti. Based on a Roman inscription discovered near Betar, Hadrian removed...
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    in marriage. The Praetorian Guard and Imperial Horse Guard (equites singulares Augusti) are disbanded. Emperor Maximinus Daza campaigns unsuccessfully...
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    Augustus. He doubled the size of the imperial escort cavalry, the equites singulares Augusti, to 2,000 by drawing select detachments from alae on the borders...
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  • including the Praetorian guard, the urban cohorts, vigiles, equites singulares Augusti and 40,000 marines in the navy. Under Trajan the number of legions...
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    Batavi in the following year. Their indirect successors were the Equites singulares Augusti which were, likewise, mainly recruited from the Germani. They...
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    of Emperor Constantine the Great over Maxentius (for whom the Equites singulares augusti, the emperor's mounted bodyguards had fought) at the Battle of...
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    for their indirect successors, the Emperor's horse guards, the Equites singulares Augusti. A Batavian contingent was used in an amphibious assault on Ynys...
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    navy, while 22 appear in the auxiliary land forces, 5–7 in the equites singulares Augusti, and even less in the Praetorian Guard. One explanation for the...
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  • were: the auxilia; Roman navy, the Praetorian Guard's cavalry (equites singulares Augusti); and the cohortes urbanae (the City of Rome's public-order battalions)...
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  • considered one of the world's foremost experts on ancient warfare. Die Equites singulares Augusti, 1965 Guards of the Roman Armies, 1978 Iuppiter Dolichenus, 1980...
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    Lata), probably in the area of Piazza di Spagna. The body of the Equites singulares was part of the guard of the Emperors and was composed of soldiers...
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    these were probably members of the Emperor's own horseguards, the equites singulares Augusti, the cavalry arm of the Praetorian Guard, most of which had accompanied...
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    prestigious name singularium ala formed around members of the elite equites singulares Augusti (imperial horseguards), left behind to reinforce frontier at the...
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    uncovered part of the principia of the castra nova (new fort) of the Equites singulares Augusti. The building was square in shape and was fronted by a portico...
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  • in marriage. The Praetorian Guard and Imperial Horse Guard (equites singulares Augusti) are disbanded. Emperor Maximinus Daza campaigns unsuccessfully...
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    given below cannot, therefore, be taken as exhaustive or definitive. Lares Augusti: the Lares of Augustus, or perhaps "the august Lares", given public cult...
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