07-30-2013, 09:32 AM
Quote:wasn't there a legion and auxiliary unit stationed in the same town in northern Italy? They antagonized each other before the legionaries massacred several auxiliaries and then set part of the town on fire before they were restationed?
That was during the civil war of AD69 - following the battle of Cremona, Legio XIV (who had fought for Otho) and several cohorts of Batavians (who had been on Vitellius's side) were stationed in Turin and fell to fighting. Part of the town was indeed burned. Whether this rivalry was based on their part in the recent battle, or perhaps a longer-standing antagonism dating from service together in Britain, or was connected in some way with the Batavian revolt that flared up later that same year, we don't know. The Batavians, in any case, would not have been citizens.
Nathan Ross
