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

64 The Roman Army
probably formed detachments under his command in Dacia and Parthia);
commander of a detachment in Dacian war, AD 101–2; governor of Judaea,
AD 102/3–5; consul, AD 105; command in second Dacian War, AD 105–6;
Cappadocia (including a substantial part of neighbouring territories in a large
administrative area), AD 107–10; command in Parthian war, AD 114–15; Syria,
AD 115–16/7; Dacia AD 117 (Halfmann, 1979: no. 26).
113 ILS 1071=Smallwood NH 234, inscription, Tibur (Tivoli),
north-east of Rome, 2nd. C.AD
To Gaius Popilius Carus Pedo, son of Gaius, of the tribe Quirina, consul
(AD 147), member of the Board of Seven for organizing banquets,
member of the Brotherhood of Hadrian, legate of Emperor Caesar
Antoninus Augustus Pius with propraetorian power of Upper Germany
and the army encamped in it, superintendent of public works, prefect
of the public treasury, superintendent of the old Aurelian road and the
new Cornelian road and the Triumphal way, legate of Legion X
Fretensis, from which duty he excused himself, praetor, tribune of the
plebs, quaestor of the divine Hadrian Augustus, candidate of the
emperor in all posts, tribune with a broad purple stripe of Legion III
Cyrenaica, granted military decorations by the divine Hadrian for
service in the Judaean expedition, member of the Board of Ten for
jurisdiction, patron of the municipality, superintendent of exemplary
excellence; the senate and people of Tibur (set this up), for a man who
deserved very well of the community.
Pedo subsequently became proconsul of Asia. Despite his military distinction
in Judaea early in his career, he became governor of Germany (c. 151) with
little experience; seemingly through the goodwill of Hadrian he acquired the
standing of a legionary legate without holding the post.
114 AE 1956. 124=Pflaum, Carrières 181 bis, inscription, Diana
Veteranorum (Zana), Numidia, 2nd C.AD
To Marcus Valerius Maximianus, son of Marcus Valerius Maximianus
who was local censor and priest, priest of the colony of Poetovio, with
the public horse, prefect of the first cohort of Thracians, tribune of the
first cohort of Hamians, Roman citizens, placed in charge of the
coastline of the peoples of Pontus Polemonianus, decorated in the
Parthian war, chosen by Emperor Marcus Antoninus Augustus and
sent on active service in the German expedition with the task of bringing
food by boat down the river Danube to supply the armies in both
provinces of Pannonia, placed in charge of the detachments of the
praetorian fleets of Misenum and also of Ravenna and also of the British