02-28-2002, 06:31 AM
According to Tacitus (Ann. II.57), there's a Tenth legion in Cyrrhus in 18 CE ("Cyrrhi demum apuid hiberna decumae legionis convenere") 'Finally, at the winter quarters of the tenth legion, they met.' As legio X Gemina is in Spain at that time, this must be Fretensis.<br>
Dabrowa, 'Legio X Fretensis', in Le Bohec, Les Legions de Rome sosu le Haut-Empire (Lyon 2000), p.319, adds that the legion was shortly thereafter moved to Zeugma on the Euphrates. There is heated debated over when exactly this was, but 49 CE seems to be most probable. <p>Greets<BR>
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Dabrowa, 'Legio X Fretensis', in Le Bohec, Les Legions de Rome sosu le Haut-Empire (Lyon 2000), p.319, adds that the legion was shortly thereafter moved to Zeugma on the Euphrates. There is heated debated over when exactly this was, but 49 CE seems to be most probable. <p>Greets<BR>
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Jasper</p><i></i>
