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alert, and issuing commands so that the troops might advance in good order.[1]
Armenia was made into a province[2] and a procuratorial governor appointed. Three of the early officials are known: L. Catilius Severus,[3] C. Atilius Claudius,[4] and T. Haterius Nepos.[5] In distant Crete a coin was struck with the legend ΑΡΜΕΝΙΑ.[6] Trajan was particularly proud of the title "Optimus" which he added to his formal titulary about this time.[7]
From Armenia Trajan turned south toward Mardin and Nisibis, perhaps then a part of Adiabene.[8] A
- ↑ Arrian Parthica fr. 41; Dio Cass. lxviii. 23.
- ↑ Eutrop. Brev. viii. 3. 2. A coin bearing the legend ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΑΡΜΕΝΙΑϹ ΕΤΟΥϹ ΜΓ was struck by Trajan at about this time; see B. Pick, "Une monnaie du κοινὸν Ἀρμενίας," Revue des études anciennes, XVI (1914), 283–89.
- ↑ Consul in 115 according to Rev. archéol., 4. sér., XVIII (1911), 486 No. 95, from Bolletino dell'Associazione archeologica romana, I (1911), 137 f.; in Armenia in 116 according to Dio Cass. lxviii (lxxv. 9. 6). CIG, II, No. 3509; PW, art. "Catilius," No. 4; Longden, "Parthian Campaigns of Trajan," JRS, XXI (1931), 10; cf. Paribeni, Optimus princeps, II, 293.
- ↑ CIL, X, No. 8291 = Dessau 1041. Rohden in PW, art. "Atilius," No. 40, says he is not identical with the Cuspius Rufinus mentioned by Paribeni, loc. cit., as the first governor; cf. also Longden, loc. cit.
- ↑ CIL, XI, No. 5212 = Dessau 1058; CIL, XI, No. 5213 = Dessau 1338; PW, art. "Haterius," No. 8.
- ↑ J. Svoronos, Numismatique de la Crète ancienne p. 347, No. 81, and Pl. XXXIV 19 (not available); W. Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Galatia, Catpadocia, and Syria (London, 1899), p. 102 and Pl. XIV 5.
- ↑ See Mattingly and Sydenham, Rom. Imp. Coin., II, 235, on this title. Cf. Dio Cass. lxviii. 23 and Pliny Paneg. 2.
- ↑ Longden, "Parthian Campaigns of Trajan," JRS, XXI (1931), 11.
