04-29-2008, 09:24 AM
From a third cent. AD (?) papyrus from Egypt:
"Marcus to Antonia, Sarapion and Cassianos, my parents, many greetings. I make obeisance for you in the presence of the gods sharing the temple. For no one can go up river to make obeisance, because of the battle which has taken place between the Anoteritae and the soldiers. Fifteen soldiers of the singulares (guardsmen) have died, apart from the legionaries, evocati, the wounded, and those suffering from battle fatigue." (P. Ross. Georg. III 1.1-7, trans by R.W. Davies ‘The Medici of the Roman Armed Forces,’ Epigraphische Studien 8 (1969), 94)
"Marcus to Antonia, Sarapion and Cassianos, my parents, many greetings. I make obeisance for you in the presence of the gods sharing the temple. For no one can go up river to make obeisance, because of the battle which has taken place between the Anoteritae and the soldiers. Fifteen soldiers of the singulares (guardsmen) have died, apart from the legionaries, evocati, the wounded, and those suffering from battle fatigue." (P. Ross. Georg. III 1.1-7, trans by R.W. Davies ‘The Medici of the Roman Armed Forces,’ Epigraphische Studien 8 (1969), 94)
