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

44 The Roman Army
77 CIL 6. 2896=ILS 2109, inscription, Rome, AD 160
To the spirits of the departed, in honour of Julius Seius Junior, son of
Gaius, of the tribe Fabia, from Rome, veteran of the Emperor, served
ten years in the eleventh urban cohort, century of Valerius, honourably
discharged on 9 January in the consulship of Appius Annius Atilius
Bradua and Titus Vibius Varus, lived forty years, twenty days; Julia
Palestrice set this up to her estimable husband.
78 CIL 6. 217=ILS 2106, inscription, Rome, AD 182
Quintus Tersina Lupus, son of Quintus, of the tribe Scaptia, from
Florentia, soldier of the twelfth urban cohort, century of Dexter, ordered
in his will that (a statue of) the spirit of the century with a marble base
should be set up.
(On the side) Set up on 13 April, in the consulship of Mamertinus
and Rufus.
79 CIL 9. 1617=ILS 2117, inscription, Beneventum, AD 146
Gaius Luccius Sabinus, son of Gaius, of the tribe Stellatina, town
councillor at Beneventum, in his lifetime constructed this for himself
and Ofillia Parata, his wife, and Luccius Verecundus, his brother, and
his descendants; he served in the first urban cohort at the side of the
tribunes, was an attendant (secular), orderly (optio) of the hospital,
orderly of the prison, aide (singularis), clerk (beneficiarius) of a tribune,
put in charge of the examination of witnesses by Annius Verus prefect
of the city, also officer in charge of the watchword, orderly, standardbearer,
clerk of the treasury, orderly in charge of records, senior clerk
(cornicularius) of a tribune, clerk of Valerius Asiaticus prefect of the
city, discharged by Emperor Hadrian Augustus in the consulship of
Servianus for the third time and Vibius Varus (AD 134), town councillor,
22 April, in the consulship of Erucius Clarus for the second time.
Frontage—twenty feet, twenty feet back (area attached to the tomb).
This career is the most detailed known in any part of the army. Sabinus held six
junior posts on the army staff, all three posts in the century, and then four
senior staff posts. He may however be unusual in that he served for part of his
career in a cohort outside Rome, with fewer soldiers available to perform the
necessary duties. The first Flavian urban cohort was reorganized under the
Flavians and stationed at Lugdunum. At this time urban cohorts X, XI, XII,
and XIV were stationed in Rome, XIII in Carthage.