Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.8, pp. 687-730
 
The Roman Army in Arabia
by Michael P. Speidel, Honolulu, Hawaii

Contents

I. Introduction 688
II. Legiones 689

1. Legio III Cyrenaica

691

2. Legio VI Ferrata (?)

697

3. Legio I Parthica Philippiana

698

4. Legio IV Martia

699
III. Auxilia 699

1. Alae

702

a) ala Celerum

702

b) ala secunde Constantiana

703

c) ala dromadanionum

703

d) ala nova firma cataphractania Philippiana

704

e) ala veterana Gaetulorum

705

f) ala VI Hispanorum

706

g) ala nona miliaria

707

h) ala secunde milianensis

707

i) ala prima Valentiana

707

j) ala secunde felix Valentiniana

707

2. Cohortes

708

a) cohors V Afrorum Severiana

708

b) cohors III Alpinorum equitata

708

c) cohors III felix Arabum

708

d) cohors I Auguste Canathenonum equilata

709

e) cohors I Hispanorum

709

f) cohors VI Hispanorum

709

g) cohors I Thebaeorum

709

h) cohors I Augusta Thracum equilata

710

i) cohors I Thracum

711

j) cohors I miliaria Thracum

711

k) cohors VIII voluntaviorum

711

l) other cohortes

712

3. Gothi Gentiles

712

4. Singulares Guards

716
IV. Elite Cavalry Units (vexillationes) of the Later Empire 717
V. History 719
Bibliography and sources for the Arabian Army 728
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