06-29-2017, 10:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-29-2017, 11:30 PM by Nathan Ross.)
(06-29-2017, 02:38 PM)Longovicium Wrote: I am not too familiar with Hyginus but would these 800 'Pannonian' Veredarii equate to the legionary cavalry billeted in the Hyginian camp?
Sorry Francis, I seem to have missed your post before (unless there was a time lag in its appearance again...?)
Hyginus's camp holds three legions, I think, and most likely dates to the early 2nd century - I can't remember who suggested that the 'Pannonian Veredarii' might be cavalry detached from the three legions (which may indeed have come from Pannonia), but if so we would have around 260-270 per legion - that does look rather Perge-like, but the legions in question were still c.6000 men so we shouldn't go too crazy with that idea!
I do suspect that these 'veredarii' cavalry at Perge were somehow a substitute for the old legion cavalry that had been detached as Promoti.
Meanwhile, a little more on veredarii in earlier military formations (one of these inscriptions has already been mentioned by Marcel):
CIL 03, 13795 (Rakovitza, Dacia, AD138): n(umerus) burg(ariorum) et veredario(rum) Daciae inf(erioris) sub / Fl(avio) Constante proc(uratore) Aug(usti)
CIL 13, 07439 (Kapersburg, Germania): In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) Genio / veredariorum n(umeri) N(idensium)
CIL 13, 08492 (Koln, Germania): ...nus vered(arius) [et] / [3]stis Dirmes[us(?)] / [vetera]nus item cu[rat(or)] / [n(umeri) Britto]num cum
All three appear to show veredarii attached to frontier numeri in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. As Marcel noted, the Numerus Nidensium one included a dedication to the celtic horse goddess Epona.
Nathan Ross
