Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 23-24. (1994)

I. Arheologie

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CELTS AND GERMANS IN DACIA

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torquata p.f.c.R.- is granted34 the Roman citizenship, and other honorific titles, for outstanding service in Dacia.

Being recruited among different nationes and gentes of the Celtic world, these troops were not directly transferred in Dacia (since the recruiting for these units had been extended to men from different countries). Wearing the ethnic name of the population (natio, gens) where from they were recruited and made up initially and exclusively, these auxiliary units had, probably, in the moment of their arrival in Dacia, compound effectives-made up, in part, of Celts or Germans mixted up with Celts, as the case of the Germanic troops.35

The epigraphical sources attest the presence in exercitus Daciae of the Celtic elements, among which can be mentioned: T. Fabius Aquileiensis,36 tribunus peditum singularium Brítannicianorum; M. Calventius Viator,37 exercitator equitum singularium, (centurio) leg. Illi F. FM. Aurelius Moenus,38 beneficiariús consularis: Aelius Gallicanus;39 veteranus ex beneficiario consularis; C. lulius Carus;40 41 frumentarius; M. Mociuncius Valentinus41 librarius legati legionis XIII Geminae: C. Urbicius Condunus;42 43 miles leg. XIII G.: L. lulius Leuganus43 vet. leg. XIII G; Cavon Vernuleius,44 vet. leg. XIII G.: Aurelius Tato,45 stator alae II Pannoniorum: M. Verpidius Silvanus,46 eques alae II Pannoniorum; Cittius loviai,47 eques alae Frontonianae; M. Ulpius Adcobrovati f. Novantico48 and M. Ulpius Sacci f. Longinus Belgus,49 milites coh. I Brittonum milliaria Ulpia torquata p.f. c.R.; Aurelius Reatinus Birsi,50 miles coh. I Batavorum, Aurelius Reburus,51 veteranus.

About the role of the army in the romanization of the natives it is hardly necessary to be mentioned here. As far as the veterans, being settled mainly in the province where they had served, öfter in the neighbourhood

34 CIL, XVI, 160 = IDR. I, DipID I (Porollssum).

35 V. Wollmann, op.cit.. p.168.

36 1.1. Russu, in SCIV. 19, 1968. p. 667 sqq = AE 1971,385 = IDR 111/3,213 (Cigmäu).

37 CIL, III, 7904 = ILS. 2417 = IDR N1/2.205 (Sarmizegetusq)

38 CIL, III. 822 (Sqmum)

39 CIL. Ill, 7736 (Apulum)

40 Dacia. III-IV. 1927-1932, p. 549-551 = AE. 1933, 248 = IDR. 111/2, 113 (Sarmizegetusa)

41 CIL III, 1194 (Apulum)

42 CIL. III. 1204 (Apulum)

43 CIL. III. 1158 (Apulum)

44 CIL. III. 1037 (Apulum)

45 AISC. V. 1944-1948. p. 232 = Germania. 53.1975. p. 172 = AE. 1977,504.

46 CIL. III. 1483 = IDR 111/2,460 (Surmizegetusa)

47 CIL. Ill, 807 (lli$ua).

48 CIL. XVI. 160 = IDR. I. DipID I (Porolissum).

49 CIL. XVI. 163 = IDR. I. DipID III (Porolissum).

50 CIL. III. 13766 (Potaissa)

51 CIL. III. 847. (GilOu)