Downgrading the Sixth Victrix.

[D B Campbell]

The words victricis eburaci do NOT occur in the compilation "notitia dignitatum": they were editorial interpolations by Seeck for which there is NO evidence in the mutually-independent copies of the absent archetype.

Hence the square brackets, which are universally understood to indicate an interpolation.

We were attempting to demonstrate the continued existence of the VIth legion into the time of the Notitia, which is proven by the existence of its commander at some undisclosed location (if not Eburacum, then where?!).