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A Note on the use of the Titles Optio and Magister below the Centurionate during the Principate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

David J. Breeze
Affiliation:
Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments, Department of the Environment, Edinburgh

Abstract

The recent discovery at the legionary lime-kilns at Iversheim in Lower Germany of an inscription recording a magister calc(ariorum) in legion XXX Ulpia Victrix, a post hitherto unattested in the Roman army, raises the question of the use of the title magister in the lower ranks of the army.

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Britannia , Volume 7 , November 1976 , pp. 127 - 133
Copyright
Copyright © David J. Breeze 1976. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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