XLVI.  Legio IIII Sorana. Column 1564. Tr. Uwe Bahr.

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Legio IIII Sorana (CIL X.5713) was transferred to Sora in the time of the Triumvirate, perhaps after the battle of Philippi (von Domaszewski, Heidelberger Jahrbücher IV 183, 4); it is referred to in a monument for one of its former officers, who served as Primipilus and Tribune with the legion and filled honorary offices in that colony after its establishment, honoris et virtutis caussa. It did not gain its title because it was levied in Sora, as Mommsen assumes (adn. to the inscription), but as representative of the newly-established municipality. In that period, when universae legiones deducebantur cum tribunis et centurionibus et sui cuiusque ordinis militibus (Tacitus Annals  XIV.27), the deployed veterans represented more or less the whole of the citizen body.