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

on camp duties 110–20; cost of
maintenance of 21; in court
166–8; daily life of 110–20;
127–39; 151–70; deductions
from salary of 22–6; deposit
accounts of 23–6, 28; discharge
of 193–210; discipline of 107–
9; families of 151–70; guarding
the grain supply 116–17; legal
privileges of 160–70; letters of
13–14, 30–1, 33, 89; marriage
of 151–60; as oppressors of
civilians 170–80; political role
of 181–92; on prison duty 119;
property of 27–8; property of
acquired in military service
(castrense peculium) 163–5,
167; on public business 165–6;
punishment of 168; recruitment
of see recruitment; rescripts to
27, 158, 162–3, 165, 169, 170,
204, 205, 239 and see also
under individual emperors;
service conditions of 20;–8
settled restoration of rights to
165–6; in colonies 210–21;
supplies for 140, 143–5;
wills of 157–65, 167
Speculatores 28, 200;
association of 137
Standards see military standards
Standard-bearer 28, 32
Stationarius 178–9
Suetonius Tranquillus, declines
military post 57
Tacfarinas, tactics used against 94–5
Tacitus, analyses relationship
between emperor and army
185–6; on legionary
dispositions 82–3
Tarentum (Taranto), military
settlement at 215
Tesserarius 28
Testudo (‘tortoise’) 100
Thelepte, colony of 35
Thuburnica, veteran at 226
Tiberius (emperor), appointment of
governors by 66–7; awards
decoration to soldier 105; as
Index of names and subjects 271
military leader 69–70; rebukes
Junius Gallio for interference
with army 183–4
Titus (emperor), awards military
decorations 107; military
honours of 75–6; and military
wills 160; speech of to troops
72; triumph of 76–7
Training, of soldiers 15–20;
of commanders 61–2, 93–4
Trajan (emperor), answers query on
recruits 11; celebrates victory in
the east 77, plate 6; colonial
settlements of 218–20; directs
campaign 73, plates 3, 4; as
fellow-soldier 73; grants special
privileges to an auxiliary cohort
199; and military wills 157,
161–2, 164–5; refuses request
for soldiers at Juliopolis 177–8;
reluctant to allow soldiers to
perform prison guard duties
119; rescripts of 13, 161;
responds to appeal from
centurion 156–7; road-building
activities of in Syria and on the
Danube 123–4
Trecenarius 51
Tribune of the soldiers 56–62
Triumph, of Vespasian and Titus 76–7
Troesmis, settlement at 147
Trumpeters 28, 30, 31; association
of 137
Ulpian, discusses duties of governors
120, 121, 176;
murder of by praetorians 190–1
Urban soldiers see cohortes
Urbanae, praetorians, vigiles
Uthina (Oudna), colony of 228
Valerius Clemens, C. (centurion),
career of 52
Valerius Eudaemon (prefect of
Egypt), decision of on marriage
of soldiers 155–6
Valerius Maximianus, M., career of
64–5
Valkenburg, auxiliary fort at 81
Velites 4–5