10-09-2013, 03:48 PM
Quote:You may well be right there.
Not necessarily! There are a few centenarii among the field army troops at the cemetery at Concordia (e.g. AE 2010, 00533: Fl(avius) DiocIes centenarius n(umeri) (Hi?)b(er)orum auxili p(a)l(atini), or CIL 05, 08758: Fl(avius) Roveos centenarius de equitum comitum seni(orum) sagit(tariorum) ).
There's also one inscription (AE 1989, 00641) that has a centenarius and a centurio ordinarius serving in the same unit, I Iovia Scythica. So apparently, and confusingly, they were different grades within the same military hierarchy...
Nathan Ross