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

216 The Roman Army
349 CIL 16. 13=MW 398, inscription, Dalgodeltzi, Upper
Moesia, AD 71
Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus, chief priest, in the second year of
his tribunician power, acclaimed imperator six times, father of the
fatherland, consul for the third time, has granted to the veterans who
served in the fleet at Misenum under the command of Sextus Lucilius
Bassus, and have completed twenty-six years’ service or more, and have
been settled at Paestum, whose names are listed below, to them, their
children, and their posterity, citizenship and the right of marriage
(conubium) with the wives they had when citizenship was granted to
them, or, if they were unmarried, with those whom they married
afterwards, limited to one wife for each man.
9 February, in the consulship of Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus
for the third time and Marcus Cocceius Nerva.
To Tutio, son of Butius, Dacian. Tablet 1, page 5, line 11.
Recorded and authenticated from the bronze plaque which is affixed
at Rome on the Capitoline on the outer part of the base of the altar of
the Julian Family opposite the statue of Father Liber.
AE 1975. 251 refers to an equestrian sent ‘to divide up the land for the veterans
who were settled in the first Flavian colony at Paestum’. This colony was founded
in AD 71 (see Keppie 1984b:98–104). Tutio returned from Paestum to his
home in Moesia, where the diploma was found. Another settler returned to
Macedonia, and two others moved elsewhere in Italy, one to Pompeii, one to
Corsica (Mann 1983:58). This confirms the view that increasingly veterans
preferred to settle either where they had served or near their home community,
generally, therefore, in the provinces.
350 ILS 2460=MW 378, inscription, Reate, 1st C.AD
To the spirits of the departed, in honour of Gaius Julius Longinus, son
of Gaius, of the tribe Voltinia in his home at Philippi in Macedonia,
veteran of Legion VIII Augusta, settled by the divine Augustus Vespasian
in Reate, (then) of the tribe Quirina, who had this made during his
lifetime for himself and Julia Helpis, freedwoman of Gaius, his wife,
and Gaius Julius Felix, freedman of Gaius; and he set it up for his
[children] and posterity, and for Gaius Julius December, freedman of
Gaius, and Julia Veneria, freedwoman of Gaius, and Gaius Julius
Prosdoxus, freedman of Gaius.
Reate was Vespasian’s home town and veterans from legions in Upper Germany
and Britain and also praetorians are known to have been settled here. Further