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

196 The Roman Army
grandson of Germanicus Caesar, great-grandson of Tiberius Caesar
Augustus, great-great grandson of the divine Augustus, chief priest, in
the eleventh year of his tribuncian power, acclaimed imperator nine
times, father of the fatherland, consul for the fourth time, has granted
to the infantrymen and cavalrymen who are serving in the three cohorts
which are called (1) first and (2) second Thracians and (3) seventh
Breucians, and are in Germany under the command of Publius Sulpicius
Scribonius Proculus, and who have served twenty-five or more years,
and whose names are written below, to them, their children, and their
posterity, citizenship and the right of marriage (conubium) with the
wives they had when citizenship was given to them, or, if they were
unmarried, with those whom they married afterwards, limited to one
wife for each man.
17 June in the consulship of Aulus Licinius Nerva Silianus and Publius
Pasidienus Firmus.
To infantryman of the seventh cohort of Breucians which is
commanded by Gaius Numisius Maximus, son of Gaius, of the tribe
Velina, Liccaius, son of Liccaius, a Breucian.
Recorded and authenticated from the bronze plaque which is affixed
at Rome on the Capitoline in front of the military treasury on the base
of the monument of the Claudii Marcelli.
(Witnesses) Gaius Marcius Nobilis, from Emona, Sextus Teius
Niceros, from Aquileia, Gaius Caecina Hermes, from Aquileia, Titus
Picatius Carpus, from Aquileia, Lucius Hostilius Blaesus, from Emona,
Marcus Trebonius Hyginus, from Aquileia, Lucius Annius Potens, from
Aquileia.
The wording of this diploma shows that these soldiers were still in service
when they received their rewards (cf. text no. 324).
324 ILS 9054=Smallwood NH 343, diploma, Siscia, Upper
Pannonia, AD 100
Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus, Conqueror of the Germans,
son of the divine Nerva, chief priest, in the fourth year of his tribunician
power, father of the fatherland, consul for the third time, has granted
to the cavalrymen and infantrymen who are serving in the three alae
and twenty-one cohorts, which are called (1) first praetorian, and (2)
first Claudian New, and (3) second Pannonians; and (1) first Flavian
Bessians, and (2) first Thracians, Roman citizens, and (3) first Flavian
milliary Spanish, and (4) first Antiochenses, and (5) first Lusitanians,
and (6) first Montani, Roman citizens, and (7) first Cisipadians, and