Friday, November 4, 2022

L. ARTORIUS CASTUS: COMMAND OF A DEPUTATION TO ROME, BUT NO GOVERNORSHIP

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The Praetorian Guard I have been reading the primary sources and lengthy commentaries such as Anthony Birley's.  Seems to me we might ha...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

WHY THE PRAEPOSITUS TITLE OF L. ARTORIUS CASTUS DOES NOT PREVENT US FROM SEEING HIM AS CAMP PREFECT OF THE SIXTH LEGION

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Stone of C. Sulgius Caecilianus This brief note provides a mid-third century inscription for a man who held a praepositus role with the same...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

L. ARTORIUS CASTUS: A PRAEFECTUS CASTRORUM - NOT A PRAEFECTUS LEGIONIS

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Dr. Linda Malcor et al, to support the argument they make in their journal article "Missing Pieces: A New Reading of the Main Lucius Ar...
Monday, October 31, 2022

PROOF POSITIVE THAT VEXILLATIONS ARE IMPLIED IN THE LUCIUS ARTORIUS CASTUS INSCRIPTION

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publication: CIL 06, 01645 (p 854, 3163, 3811, 4725) = D 02773 = IDRE-01, 00019 = EAOR-01, 00026 = AE 1965, +00223 dating: 247 to 249       ...
Friday, October 28, 2022

NO "UNKNOWN" GOVERNOR IN BRITAIN 187-192 A.D.

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I've been researching, and given the horrible shape the army was in at the end of Pertinax's term as governor, and given that Albinu...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

THE ABSURDITY OF L. ARTORIUS CASTUS AS COMMANDER (DUX) OF THREE ENTIRE BRITISH LEGIONS: MY FINAL SAY ON THE SUBJECT

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Sad to say, recent communication with one of the authors of the article "Missing Pieces: A New Reading of the Main Lucius Artorius Cast...