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    praetorian cohorts. Mark Antony's veterans of Legio XXXV attacked the eight cohorts of the Martia while the entire Legio II moved against the two cohorts under...
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    African campaign. A legion that fits the same sequence of locations is the Legio VI Ferrata, of which ballista would be an auxiliary unit. Mainly known for...
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    entry "Legio", in Realencyclopädie of Klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, 1925, col.1619-20 and 1650 CIL V, 908 (p 1025) and CIL V, 955 of legio VII Claudia...
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    river defining the northern boundary of Italy – with a single legion, the Legio XIII Gemina, and ignited civil war. Upon crossing the Rubicon, Caesar, according...
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  • [are] vain From Horace's Odes; motto of the University of Pennsylvania legio patria nostra The Legion is our fatherland Motto of the French Foreign Legion...
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    this period as well. From the Tetrarchic period an entire Roman legion, Legio I Pontica, was installed here for greater protection of the coast. Another...
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  • emperor Claudius sometime after AD 45 and settled with the veterans of Legio VII when they left the neighboring camp at Tilurium for Moesia." Dalmatia...
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    with the then Minister of Sardinia in Rome Cesare d'Azeglio and his son Massimo. Upon the death of Pius VII, his successors did not return to Castel Gandolfo...
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    Illyrian Wars, X, 18). Strabo, VII, 3.11). Appian, The Illyrian Wars, 23). Cassius Dio, XLIII, 51 & XLVII, 27.2-5); Plutarch, Cesare, 58); Appian, The Civil...
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    Roman proconsul Marcus Lollius and the loss of the legionary insignia of legio V Alaudae. It was as a result of these advents that the Roman Emperor Augustus...
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    the first century A.D. In 197, the Emperor Septimius Severus created the Legio II Parthica, whose headquarters was at the Castra Albana, until they were...
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    although these recruits were less skilled and poorly trained. Livy mentions a legio linteata ("linen legion"); this unit used flamboyant equipment to differentiate...
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    keeping the 1765 format, it added vexilla with markings for Legio V Macedonica and Legio XIII Gemina. Transylvania's Romanian nationalists continued to...
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