Last Legion Standing

[Spurius Papirius Cursor]

Hi all!

Let me thank everyone for their responses - they are great.

I'll respond to Renatus first, again with thanks.

Re Casey, "Grrrr!" to him. Still, it may have been a matter of his publishers minimising the number of footnotes, so benefit of doubt. Still, it would have been nice...

Papyri link: THANK YOU! An unknown world for me to explore. I wonder if I could throw up an extract from the passage you refer to for thought:

"...καὶ χειρὶ τοῦ βικαρίο(υ) τῶν στρατιωτῶν Σκυθῶν καὶ τῶν Μακεδόνων,...".

I interpret this (with less-than-perfect Greek) tp mean:

"...and (dative/singular of) hand of the (?) vicarius of the Scythians and of the Macedonians..."

Could the Scythians referred to here also be a legion? (maybe Legio IV Scythica?)

Or maybe not. I realise this is drawing a longish bow with other possibilities in the ND, e.g.:

a. (? under the Magister militum in praesenti)
- One of 6 "legiones palatinae" (Scythae)

b. Under a Praefectus legionis, the quartae Scythicae, Oresa

c. Under the Dux Scythiae:
- Milites Scythici, Carso.
- Milites Scythici, Dirigothia.

d. Under the Praefectus ripae legionis:
- primae Ioviae cohortis ..... et secundae Herculiae musculorum Scythicorum et classis,

Cheers

Howard/SPC