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Legionary anecdotes? - Protectores Donutici - 08-08-2018
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could paste passages from texts where the writer specifically named a legionary or centurion for their deeds.
Thanks,
Chris
RE: Legionary anecdotes? - Crispianus - 08-09-2018
(08-08-2018, 09:40 PM)Protectores Donutici Wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone could paste passages from texts where the writer specifically named a legionary or centurion for their deeds.
Thanks,
Chris
Ross Cowan has uploaded an article here.... I believe this is what your after:
https://www.academia.edu/31575917/Centurion
RE: Legionary anecdotes? - Protectores Donutici - 08-09-2018
(08-09-2018, 04:42 AM)Crispianus Wrote:(08-08-2018, 09:40 PM)Protectores thaDonutici Wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone could paste passages from texts where the writer specifically named a legionary or centurion for their deeds.
Thanks,
Chris
Ross Cowan has uploaded an article here.... I believe this is what your after:
https://www.academia.edu/31575917/Centurion
Thank you!
RE: Legionary anecdotes? - Michael J. Taylor - 08-09-2018
Famously from Livy, Spurius Ligustinus, who even gets his own extended speech.
https://www.academia.edu/36839653/A_Census_Record_as_a_Source_in_Livy_The_Biography_of_Spurius_Ligustinus
RE: Legionary anecdotes? - Shield And Spear Art - 08-11-2018
One of my favorite stories comes from Cassius Dio, during Trajan's Parthian Campaign. A Centurion named Sentius went as an envoy to Adenystrae, where he was imprisoned. When the Roman Army marched towards the stronghold, Sentius organized his fellow prisoners and broke out of jail, killed the garrison commander and opened the gates for the Romans.
Cassius Dio, book LXVIII: 22
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/68*.html