The Roman Army, 31 BC–AD 337: A Sourcebook

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wide, weight 3 pounds, 6 ounces (3 3/4 minae)—24 drachmae on account;
four white Syrian cloaks, each 8 feet, 8 inches (6 cubits) long, 5 feet, 8
inches (4 cubits) wide, weight 3 pounds, 6 ounces (3 3/4 minae)—24
drachmae on account for each; total 96 drachmae; combined total 120
drachmae; for the requirements of the hospital in the imperial camp,
one plain white blanket, 8 feet, 8 inches (6 cubits) long, 5 feet, 8 inches
(4 cubits) wide, weight 3 pounds 9 ounces (4 minae)—28 drachmae on
account; total of payment order—148 silver drachmae; but from the
advance of 28 drachmae in respect of the blankets, 6 drachmae were
deducted for the imperial treasury. It is agreed that they are to make
the clothing of good soft pure white wool without any kind of stain
and that it is to be well-woven, firm, with finished hems, satisfactory,
without damage, and not in value below the price paid to them in
advance for the clothing. If, when it is handed over, any of the clothing
is missing or is held to be of inferior value, they shall on their mutual
responsibility repay the value of the missing clothing, together with
dues and expenses, and the deficit in respect of clothing of inferior
value. And they shall deliver them promptly with the established
specifications and weights, separate from other public clothing
requirements which they owe. The second year of Emperor Caesar
Titus Aelius Hadrian Antoninus Augustus Pius, Thoth 12.
240 Tacitus (1st–2nd C.AD), Histories 4. 22
In response to these threats of concentrated war, the legionary
commanders Munius Lupercus and Numisius Rufus strengthened the
rampart and walls. They demolished the buildings which because of the
long peace had grown up close to the camp and had assumed virtually
the proportions of a town, in case they proved of assistance to the enemy.
This is the legionary camp at Vetera where the canabae lay to the south-east
(Petrikovits (1958), cols. 1801–34). A civilian settlement which developed about
three kilometres north-west of the camp, near Xanten, was made a colony by
Trajan.
241 CIL 13. 6797=Smallwood GN 430, inscription, Moguntiacum
(Mainz), Upper Germany, AD 43–4
To Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, chief priest, in the
third year of his tribunician power, imperator for the fourth time, father
of the fatherland, consul for the third time, the Roman citizen
businessmen engaged in bag manufacture (set this up) when Gaius
Vibius Rufinus was legate with propraetorian power.