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army is still fairly uncertain. If we view it, as is mostly accepted, as the legio quinta which lost its eagle in the defeat of Lollius in 737 = 17 BC (Vellei. II 97, 1: accepta in Germania clades sub M. Lollio … amissaque legionis quintae aquila vocavit ab urbe in Gallias Caesarem), then the legion abandoned its Spanish posting shortly after the end of the Spanish wars. However if the one which lost its eagle was another Vth legion (V Gallica according to v. Domaszewski Arch. epigr. Mitt. XV 189, see below leg. V Gallica no. XLVIII), then there remains more flexibility in fixing the time of the relocation of the legion; in that case V Alaudae was transferred to Rhine either by the beginning of the great offensive against Germans under Drusus in 742 = 12 BC (possibly a few years earlier), or first after the Varian disaster in 9 or 10 CE. Here it appears first in the revolt of legions after the death of Augustus, in the autumn of 14 CE, as a part of the lower army (Tac. ann. I 31). It stayed together with the XXI in a double-camp in Vetera (ann. I 45).
In this camp, in which the legion remained until the end of its stay on the Rhine, it occupied the prestigious right part. This placing is also visible in the camp built around 45 CE by legiones V Alaudae and XV Prim. through the disposition of bricks of these legions in the two halves of the camp (Bonn. Jahrb. CXVI 313. 338. CXIX 290. CXXII 387. Lehner Röm.-germ. Korr.-Bl. II 1909 p. 50); but the same can be supposed also for earlier camps until the time of Augustus, for the then camp-fellow of the V Alaudae, the XXI Rapax, stayed behind the former in both, age and seniority, as did the XV Prim. at the time of Claudius. In fact this is also confirmed by the position in the marching order of the army in 14 and 15 CE (Tac. ann. I 51 and 64), where the right wing of the marching column seems to have been a standing position of the V legion (Oxé Bonn. Jahrb. CXVIII 1909, 85).
The location of brick-kilns of V Alaudae, which produced the plentiful brick-material in Vetera, is still unknown; it is certain that they were separate from the brick-kilns of legio XV, because the latter have been found (Bonn. Jahrb. CX 95ff. Steiner Katalog p. 55) and the brick-stamps of legio V are missing.*** However traces of the legionary brickworks of V Alaudae have been found near Sinzig at the mouth of the river Aare (Hagen Bonn. Jahrb. CXIV 190f.), but they have not yet been thoroughly examined;
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