Monument of M. Cœlius.
Under Tiberius, Rufus Helvius, a common soldier, was presented by his commander, L. Apronius, with torques and hasta for saving the life of a citizen, and Tiberius sent him besides the civic crown[1]. C. J. Serrætor, in the same reign, is presented with the larger torques, for services in the Dalmatian war[2].
Under Nero the usage is mentioned as confirmed for the general to bestow torques upon deserving soldiers[3]. They are mentioned in the entry of the German legionaries into Rome[4]. Vespasian gave several torques, armlets, and horse-trappings, to L. Lepidius, and Annæus Proculus[5]; and Q. Albius, in the Parthian war[6], and Caius Numisius, a Roman horseman, received a torques and armillæ from Titus[7]. Quiutus Albius, a trumpeter of the Illyrian cohort, obtained the same for services in the Parthian war from Trajan. M. Licinius Mucianus was similarly rewarded by the same emperor, for his valour in the Dacian war[8]. C. Arrius Cornelius Clemens was presented with torques and armillæ by Hadrian in the Dacian war[9], and the soldiers engaged in the war in Britain[10] were generally rewarded with the torques, armlets,
