02-12-2010, 05:28 PM
Salve caiustarquitius,
Do you have a reference for the assertion that this legion often referred her name to Gaius Fabricius Luscinus?
I could neither find this in Ritterling nor could I find any inscriptions of this type in the usual online epigraphic databases (I must admit that I am not good at database searches). It would appear quite astonishing for an Imperial legion to refer back to a Republican hero more than 200 years oider, I would think.
Thank you!
Quote:Which means M. Aius from the first legion of the fabricii (Legio I often referred her name to Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, who fought Pyrrhus, Legio I lost that name only when she came into Augustus "posession" after he had defeated Marcus Antonius)
Do you have a reference for the assertion that this legion often referred her name to Gaius Fabricius Luscinus?
I could neither find this in Ritterling nor could I find any inscriptions of this type in the usual online epigraphic databases (I must admit that I am not good at database searches). It would appear quite astonishing for an Imperial legion to refer back to a Republican hero more than 200 years oider, I would think.
Thank you!
Regards,
Jens Horstkotte
Munich, Germany
Jens Horstkotte
Munich, Germany