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may have served: III Gallica,[1] III Augusta,[2] I Adiutrix,[3] X Gemina,[4] and possibly II Traiana.[5]
The Syrian troops were in miserable shape, most of them ill equipped and some not even familiar with their weapons.[6] Verus was greatly worried over the desperate situation in which he found affairs.[7] He made an attempt to treat for terms, but the suggestion was refused by Vologases.[8] Verus established his military headquarters in Antioch, where he could enjoy the cool shade and swift waters of near-by Daphne. His winters were spent in Laodicea.[9] There is no record of his taking an active part in the campaign with the exception of a rapid trip to the
- ↑ Année épig., 1913, No. 48 = Dessau 9492. Probably Lucian Quomodo hist. 31 refers to this legion. Possibly the imaginative account he cites uses the names of troops actually under Cassius in Mesopotamia. A Celtic and a small Moorish contingent are also mentioned by Lucian loc. cit. See also Hopkins and Rowell in The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Fifth Season, pp. 229 f.
- ↑ CIL, VIII, No. 2975 = Dessau 2306. This should perhaps be referred to the time of Severus.
- ↑ CIL, III, No. 6755.
- ↑ CIL, VIII, No. 7050.
- ↑ On this and on all the other legions see PW, art. "Legio."
- ↑ Fronto Princ. hist. (Loeb, II, pp. 206 ff.); Vul. Gall. Avidius Cassius 5. 5–7.
- ↑ Fronto Epist. ii. 2 (Loeb, II, pp. 116–18).
- ↑ Fronto Princ. hist. 14 (Loeb, II, p. 212); Nazarius Paneg. xxiv. 6. The true estimate of the character of Verus must lie somewhere between the eulogy of Fronto and the vilification of Dio and the Scriptores.
- ↑ Dio Cass. lxxi. 1–2; Capit. Verus 7. 3 and Marcus Antoninus 8. 12.
