Last Legion Standing

[Renatus]

One reference (not sure which) refers to these men being called 'Quintani', after their unit numeral....

Yes, I've read a source with that and, like you Robert, I've lost track of it. If anyone has a lead on it that'd be great. I recently had a "computer tragedy" where I lost a lot of my saved resources so I'm re-building all my Late Legion stuff from scratch. The "Quintani" reference was a key one for me.

Ross Cowan, in the article referred to in Amelianus’ first post (‘The longest lived legion: Quinta Macedonica – Legio Antiqua’, Ancient Warfare II.3, 36-39), mentions a letter written by an augustalis of the Quintani (described as numerus rather than legio) but does not give a reference. The papyrus in question seems to be p.ross.georg. 3.10, which can be found here:

http://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.ross.georg;3;10

ἀγουσσταλίου νουμέρ[ου] κυντανῶν appears in ll.2-3 and ἀγουσταλίου νουμέρου κυντανῶν on the verso.

Cowan also refers to one Gaiolus, tribunus Quintanorum, again without a reference. The text is c.ep.lat. 234 and can be found here:

http://papyri.info/ddbdp/c.ep.lat;;234

Fl[av]ius Gaiolus trib(unus) quintanor(um) is in the first line.

I found these references on a Russian site, which also contains other useful references. The Google translation is here:

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?...d%3Dimvnsb