Dando-Collins, \'Legions of Rome\'

[D B Campbell]

I think the inscription in Rome to 'X Gemina Equestris' (upon which the connection largely rests) has been queried elsewhere. It actually reads: leg / legion(is) eius pe [leg(ione)] / X Gemina eque / centuriones e[t ] / clupeum aura[tum] / M(arti) U(ltori) v(otum) [s(olverunt)] (AE 1934, 152). Might this actually refer to 'centurions and equites' of X Gemina? Or is that ungrammatical?

Hello, Nathan. If you are suggesting what I think you are suggesting, you must be envisaging quite a small lacuna between the end of each line and the beginning of the next, whereas there is probably quite a large part missing. This representation of the inscription will help to explain:
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