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Flavians would still mostly be visible in its personnel.**** The loss of three imaginiferi and at least five signiferi – we are dealing with the cohors prima of the legion now – which can be infered from a fragment, could happen only through a crushing defeat of any unit; even in a dearly-won victory it is a hardly imaginable loss: the well-founded suggestion of Cichorius (Die röm. Denkmäler in der Dobrudscha 1904, 25f.), that the gravestone does not date from the time of Trajan, is further confirmed by connecting this fragment to V Alaudae’s destruction with Cornelius Fuscus – complete proof must wait for later.
Legati legionis:
Cethegus Labeo, in 28, Tac. ann. IV 73.
Fabius Fabullus, in 69, hist. III 14, see also Prosopogr. II p. 46 no. 23 and 24.
Ti. Plautius M. f. Ani(ensis) Silvanus Aelianus, legat(us) leg(ionis) V in Germania under Caligula, CIL XIV 3608, see also Prosopogr. III p. 47 no. 363.
Tribuni militum:
C. Aemilius C. f. Gal(eria) Fraternus, at the time of Nero, CIL II 4188, conducted the census in Aquitania, perhaps in 61, Tac. ann. XIV 46.
L. Blatius L. f. Ser(gia), at the time of Augustus, seems to have conducted the settlement of veterans of the Vth and Xth legions in Hispalis, CIL II 1176.
Cn. Domitius Sex. f. Vel. Afer Titius Marcellus Curvius Lucanus (laticl.), under Nero, CIL XI 5210.
Cn. Domitius … Tullus (laticl.), under Nero, XI 5211.
(C. Iulius Maximus, cheiliarchon legiônos e, it is uncertain if the Macedonica or the Alaudae, Année épigr. 1908 no. 97.)
……tius Varus, at the time of Claudius, CIL XIV 2960.
Unknown (laticl.), at the time of Claudius, IX 3380.
The commander of the vexillation of the legion together with that of the other legions on the lower Rhine in 21 CE was Torquatus Novellius Atticus, XIV 3602 (see above).
Centuriones:
L. Bruttius Iustus, perhaps at the time of Claudius or Nero, XIII 12059.
(T. Cesdius T. f. (?), wax tablet from Netherlands Année épigr. 1919 no. 51); uncertain reading.
Sabidius C. f. Pap(iria), at the time of Augustus, IX 4122.
Soldier’s origins:
Italia: Mediolanium (CIL XIII 8644), Faventia (VIII 10605 = 14697)
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