08-10-2006, 01:54 PM
Quote:Up until the Flavian period, this is how things stood, but a diploma from Dalmatia of 93AD shows that unenfranchised recruits had been accepted.
I presume this is CIL XVI 38, Adrian (which is dated July AD 94 in RMD).
Although it was issued to a pedes of Cohors III Alpinorum, the diploma also covers men serving in VIII Voluntariorum c.R., which again raises the possibility that there were non-citizens in the ranks of a c.R. unit.
Interestingly, the diploma includes a clause that I have not seen on any other diploma:
[peditibus qui militant ...] in VIII Voluntariorum civium Romanorum qui peregrinae condicionis probati erant
I don't have access to CIL XVI, so I don't know if Nesselhauf commented on this peculiar clause. But I take it to mean that this particular constitutio (i.e., Dalmatia, July AD 94) applied to all time-served men in the Cohors Alpinorum, but only to those men in the VIII Voluntariorum who had been enrolled (probati) as freeborn non-citizens (peregrinae).
I am not a diploma expert, by any means. Perhaps some of our colleagues, particularly those familiar with the copious German literature, could shed some light on this?
