cohors Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
... (pl. cohortēs ) In the early Roman republic the infantry provided by the allies were organized in separate cohortes of varying strength, each under a Roman or native prefect . In the legions the cohort was first used as a tactical unit by Cornelius Scipio Africanus in Spain, but for over a century it was employed alongside the manipular organization ( see manipulus ) before the latter was superseded in the field. The cohort was made up of three maniples, or six centuries. There were ten cohortes in a legion. From the time of Cornelius Scipio...
cohors Reference library
Henry Michael Denne Parker, George Ronald Watson, and Jonathan C. N. Coulston
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
...were ten cohortes in a legion. From the time of P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus , the general's personal bodyguard was known as the cohors praetoria . By the middle of the 1st cent. bc , the term was used also to describe the group of personal friends and acquaintances which accompanied a provincial governor. Both these usages led to developments in the empire. This entourage was the origin of the emperor's cohors amicorum ( see amicus augusti ); the military cohortes praetoriae were formalized in the praetorian guard ( see praetorians ). In the...
cohors
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Vindolanda tablets
tribūnī mīlitum
Raetia
auxilia
Propertius
war, art of, Roman
legion
Vindolanda tablets Reference library
J. David Thomas
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
...of thin, wooden leaves, written in ink with a pen. Only a handful of tablets of this type was previously known, and the concentration of such numbers at one site is unique. They date between c. ad 90 and 120 , when the fort was occupied first by Cohors I Tungrorum and later by Cohors IX Batavorum ( see cohors ). The Vindolanda material includes the largest group of Latin letters ever discovered ( see letters, latin ). There are also literary fragments, shorthand texts, military reports, applications for leave, and accounts. The letters often bear on the...
Brigantium Reference library
Simon J. Keay
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
...Brigantium Flavium, suggests it was a recipient of Vespasian's grant of the Latin right ( see ius latii ). There is no evidence, however, for municipal institutions even though tombstones are known and it appears as a statio on two itineraries ( Ravenna Cosmography ). The cohors Celtibera was stationed there prior to the early 5th cent. A lighthouse still stands 2 km. (1 ¼ mi.) to the north ( CIL 2. 2559). A. Tranoy , La Galice romaine (1981). Simon J....
Vindolanda tablets Reference library
J. David Thomas
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (2 ed.)
...were made of thin wooden leaves, written in ink with a pen. Only a handful of tablets of this type was previously known, and the concentration of such numbers at one site is unique. They date between c. ad 90 and 120 , when the fort was occupied first by Cohors (cohort) I Tungrorum and later by Cohors IX Batavorum. The Vindolanda material includes the largest group of Latin letters ever discovered. There are also literary fragments, shorthand texts, military reports, applications for leave, and accounts. The letters often bear on the official and private...
Vindolanda tablets Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
...type, but most were made of thin, wooden leaves, written in ink with a pen. Very few such tablets were previously known, and the concentration of such numbers at one site is unique. They date between c. ad 90 and 120 , when the fort was occupied first by Cohors I of Tungrians and later by Cohors IX of Batavians. The Vindolanda material includes the largest group of Latin letters ever discovered ( see letters, latin ). There are also literary fragments, shorthand texts, military reports, applications for leave, and accounts. The letters often bear on...
Cornovii Reference library
Sheppard S. Frere and Martin J. Millett
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
...the Welsh metal mines. Few villas occur, although there were a large number of less Romanized farmsteads in the Severn valley. Romanized settlement largely concentrated at Viroconium. Industries include salt (at Droitwich), copper, and lead workings. The Notitia records a Cohors I Cornoviorum at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. V. Gaffney and R. White , Wroxeter, the Cornovii and the Urban Process 1 (2007). Sheppard S. Frere / Martin J....
manipulus Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
...each commanded by a centurion ( see centurio ), the senior having overall responsibility. Intervals between maniples in battle formation were covered by the ranks behind, but were perhaps closed during advance. In the late 2nd cent. bc a larger tactical unit, the cohort ( see cohors ), replaced the...
Glevum Reference library
Sheppard S. Frere and Martin J. Millett
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
..., Roman Gloucester, was founded as a military base for the conquest of Wales. A fortress of Legio XX Valeria ( see legion ) was constructed at Kingsholm in c. ad 48 / 9 when P. Ostorius Scapula was moving against the Silures. A tombstone of Cohors VI Thracum may imply an auxiliary fort also. Legio XX moved to Usk in c. 57 . The fortress beneath modern Gloucester was then constructed for its return c .67 . It was occupied until c. 75 . In 96–8 the vacant fortress was settled as a colonia ( ILS 2365), but was perhaps overshadowed by the...
