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Legio XIV Gemina, the Glossary

Legio XIV Gemina ("The Twinned Fourteenth Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army, levied by Julius Caesar in 57 BC.^[1]

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Comitatenses
Military units and formations established in the 1st century BC
Roman legions in Britain

Ambiorix

Ambiorix (Gaulish "king of the surroundings", or "king-protector") (54–53 BC) was, together with Cativolcus, prince of the Eburones, leader of a Belgic tribe of north-eastern Gaul (Gallia Belgica), where modern Belgium is located.

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Ambiorix's revolt

Ambiorix's revolt was an episode during the Gallic Wars between 54 and 53 BC in which the Eburones tribe, under its leader, Ambiorix, rebelled against the Roman Republic.

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Antoninus Pius

Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius (19 September AD 86 – 7 March 161) was Roman emperor from AD 138 to 161.

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Aquilifer

An aquilifer ("eagle-bearer") was a soldier signifer bearing the eagle standard of a Roman legion.

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Arminius

Arminius (18/17 BC–AD 21) was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who is best known for commanding an alliance of Germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9, in which three Roman legions under the command of general and governor Publius Quinctilius Varus were destroyed.

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Atuatuca

Atuatuca (or Aduatuca) is the name of two ancient fortified settlements located in the eastern part of modern Belgium, between the Scheldt and Rhine rivers.

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Aulus Plautius

Aulus Plautius was a Roman politician and general of the mid-1st century.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Battle of Actium

The Battle of Actium was a naval battle fought between Octavian's maritime fleet, led by Marcus Agrippa, and the combined fleets of both Mark Antony and Cleopatra.

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Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, described as the Varus Disaster or Varian Disaster (Clades Variana) by Roman historians, was a major battle between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire that took place somewhere near modern Kalkriese from September 8–11, 9 AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus and their auxiliaries.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Bellum Batonianum

The Bellum Batonianum (Latin for 'War of the Batos') was a military conflict fought in the Roman province of Illyricum in the 1st century AD, in which an alliance of native peoples of the two regions of Illyricum, Dalmatia and Pannonia, revolted against the Romans.

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Bellum Siculum

The Bellum Siculum (Latin for "Sicilian War") was an Ancient Roman civil war waged between 42 BC and 36 BC by the forces of the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey, the last surviving son of Pompey the Great and the last leader of the Optimate faction.

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Boudica

Boudica or Boudicca (from Brythonic *boudi 'victory, win' + *-kā 'having' suffix, i.e. 'Victorious Woman', known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as italics) was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61.

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Boudican revolt

The Boudican revolt was an armed uprising by native Celtic Britons against the Roman Empire during the Roman conquest of Britain.

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Caesar's civil war

Caesar's civil war (49–45 BC) was a civil war during the late Roman Republic between two factions led by Gaius Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey), respectively.

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Capricorn (astrology)

Capricorn (Aigókerōs, Latin for "horned goats") is the tenth astrological sign in the zodiac out of twelve total zodiac signs, originating from the constellation of Capricornus, the goat.

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Carnuntum

Carnuntum (according to Ptolemy) was a Roman legionary fortress (castra legionis) and headquarters of the Pannonian fleet from 50 AD.

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Castra

In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (castra) was a military-related term.

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Cativolcus

Cativolcus or Catuvolcus (died 53 BC) was king of half of the country of the Eburones, a people between the Meuse and Rhine rivers, united with Ambiorix, the other king, in the insurrection against the Romans in 54 BC; but when Julius Caesar in the next year proceeded to devastate the territories of the Eburones, Cativolcus, who was advanced in age and unable to endure the labours of war and flight, poisoned himself with a yew, after imprecating curses upon Ambiorix.

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Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (1 August – 13 October) was a Roman emperor, ruling from to 54.

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Cognomen

A cognomen (cognomina; from co- "together with" and (g)nomen "name") was the third name of a citizen of ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions.

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Comitatenses

The comitatenses and later the palatini were the units of the field armies of the late Roman Empire.

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Ctesiphon

Ctesiphon (𐭲𐭩𐭮𐭯𐭥𐭭, Tyspwn or Tysfwn; تیسفون; Κτησιφῶν,; ܩܛܝܣܦܘܢThomas A. Carlson et al., “Ctesiphon — ܩܛܝܣܦܘܢ ” in The Syriac Gazetteer last modified July 28, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/58.) was an ancient Mesopotamian city, located on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and about southeast of present-day Baghdad.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Didius Julianus

Marcus Didius Julianus (29 January 133 – 2 June 193) was Roman emperor from March to June 193, during the Year of the Five Emperors.

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Domitian

Domitian (Domitianus; 24 October 51 – 18 September 96) was Roman emperor from 81 to 96.

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Eburones

The Eburones (Greek: Ἐβούρωνες, Ἐβουρωνοί) were a Gaulish-Germanic tribe dwelling in the northeast of Gaul, who lived north of the Ardennes in the region near that is now the southern Netherlands, eastern Belgium and the German Rhineland, in the period immediately preceding the Roman conquest of the region.

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Gaius Vettius Sabinianus Julius Hospes

Gaius Vettius Sabinianus Julius Hospes (fl. 2nd century) was a Roman military officer and senator.

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Gallic Empire

The Gallic Empire or the Gallic Roman Empire are names used in modern historiography for a breakaway part of the Roman Empire that functioned de facto as a separate state from 260 to 274.

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Gallic Wars

The Gallic Wars were waged between 58 and 50 BC by the Roman general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland).

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Gallienus

Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (c. 218 – September 268) was Roman emperor with his father Valerian from 253 to 260 and alone from 260 to 268.

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Germania Superior

Germania Superior ("Upper Germania") was an imperial province of the Roman Empire.

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Germanicus

Germanicus Julius Caesar (24 May 15 BC – 10 October AD 19) was an ancient Roman general and politician most famously known for his campaigns in Germania.

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Hadrian

Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.

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Imperial Roman army

The Imperial Roman Army was the military land force of the Roman Empire from 27 BC to 476 AD, and the final incarnation in the long history of the Roman army.

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Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.

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Legatus

A legatus (anglicised as legate) was a high-ranking Roman military officer in the Roman army, equivalent to a high-ranking general officer of modern times.

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Legio XXI Rapax

Legio XXI Rapax ("Predator, Twenty-First Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army. Legio XIV Gemina and legio XXI Rapax are military units and formations established in the 1st century BC and Roman legions.

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Liberators' civil war

The Liberators' civil war (43–42 BC) was started by the Second Triumvirate to avenge Julius Caesar's assassination.

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List of Roman legions

This is a list of Roman legions, including key facts about each legion, primarily focusing on the Principate (early Empire, 27 BC – 284 AD) legions, for which there exists substantial literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence. Legio XIV Gemina and list of Roman legions are Roman legions.

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Lucius Antonius Saturninus

Lucius Antonius Saturninus was a Roman senator and general during the reign of Vespasian and his sons.

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Lucius Cornelius Pusio Annius Messalla

Lucius Cornelius Pusio Annius Messalla was a Roman senator under the Flavian dynasty who held several offices in the emperor's service.

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Lucius Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus

Lucius Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus (born in Barcino, AD 96) was a Roman statesman and military leader who served as the Proconsul of Africa from 153 to 154.

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Lucius Verus

Lucius Aurelius Verus (15 December 130 – January/February 169) was Roman emperor from 161 until his death in 169, alongside his adoptive brother Marcus Aurelius.

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Magister militum

Magister militum (Latin for "master of soldiers";: magistri militum) was a top-level military command used in the late Roman Empire, dating from the reign of Constantine the Great.

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Mainz

Mainz (see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 35th-largest city.

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Mancetter

Mancetter is a village and civil parish in North Warwickshire, England, where Watling Street crosses the River Anker.

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Marcomanni

The Marcomanni were a Germanic people.

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (English:; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher.

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Marcus Cornelius Nigrinus Curiatius Maternus

Marcus Cornelius Nigrinus Curiatius Maternus was a Roman senator and general during the reign of Domitian.

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Marcus Nonius Macrinus

Marcus Nonius Macrinus was a Roman senator and general during the reigns of the Emperors Antoninus Pius, Lucius Verus, and Marcus Aurelius.

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Marcus Statius Priscus

Marcus Statius Priscus Licinius Italicus (M. Statius M. f. Cl. Priscus Licinius Italicus)The name M. Statius M. f. Cl.

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Marian reforms

The Marian reforms were putative changes to the composition and operation of the Roman army during the late Roman republic usually attributed to Gaius Marius (a general who was consul in 107, 104–100, and 86 BC).

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Mauri

Mauri (from which derives the English term "Moors") was the Latin designation for the Berber population of Mauretania, located in the west side of North Africa on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, Mauretania Tingitana and Mauretania Caesariensis, in present-day Morocco and northwestern Algeria.

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Moesia

Moesia (Latin: Moesia; Moisía) was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River.

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Nero

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was a Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68.

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Notitia Dignitatum

The Notitia dignitatum et administrationum omnium tam civilium quam militarium (Latin for 'List of all dignities and administrations both civil and military') is a document of the Late Roman Empire that details the administrative organization of the Western and the Eastern Roman Empire. Legio XIV Gemina and Notitia Dignitatum are comitatenses.

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Pannonia

Pannonia was a province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia.

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Pannonia Superior

Pannonia Superior was a Roman province created from the division of Pannonia in 103 AD, its capital in Carnuntum.

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Parthian Empire

The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power centered in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD.

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Pertinax

Publius Helvius Pertinax (1 August 126 – 28 March 193) was Roman emperor for the first three months of 193.

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Perusine War

The Perusine War (also Perusian or Perusinian War, or the War of Perusia) was a civil war of the Roman Republic, which lasted from 41 to 40 BC.

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Pescennius Niger

Gaius Pescennius Niger (c. 135 – 194) was a Roman usurper from 193 to 194 during the Year of the Five Emperors.

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Petronell-Carnuntum

Petronell-Carnuntum is a community of Bruck an der Leitha in Austria.

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Postumus

Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus (259 – 269) was a Roman commander of Batavian origin, who ruled as emperor of the splinter state of the Roman Empire known to modern historians as the Gallic Empire.

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Publius Cluvius Maximus Paullinus

Publius Cluvius Maximus Paullinus (died AD 157 or 158) was a Roman senator, who held a number of imperial appointments during the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius.

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Regalianus

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Revolt of the Batavi

The Revolt of the Batavi took place in the Roman province of Germania Inferior ("Lower Germania") between AD 69 and 70.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Roman conquest of Britain

The Roman conquest of Britain was the Roman Empire's conquest of most of the island of Britain, which was inhabited by the Celtic Britons.

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Roman Dacia

Roman Dacia (also known as; or Dacia Felix) was a province of the Roman Empire from 106 to 271–275 AD.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Roman legion

The Roman legion (legiō), the largest military unit of the Roman army, was composed of Roman citizens serving as legionaries. Legio XIV Gemina and Roman legion are Roman legions.

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Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_XIV_Gemina

Also known as 14th Legion, Legio XIIII Gemina.

, Marcus Cornelius Nigrinus Curiatius Maternus, Marcus Nonius Macrinus, Marcus Statius Priscus, Marian reforms, Mauri, Moesia, Nero, Notitia Dignitatum, Pannonia, Pannonia Superior, Parthian Empire, Pertinax, Perusine War, Pescennius Niger, Petronell-Carnuntum, Postumus, Publius Cluvius Maximus Paullinus, Regalianus, Revolt of the Batavi, Roman Britain, Roman conquest of Britain, Roman Dacia, Roman Empire, Roman legion, Roman Republic, Rome, Sarmatians, Septimius Severus, Sextus Julius Severus, Tacitus, Tiberius, Titus Flavius Rufus, Tongeren, Trajan's Dacian Wars, Tribunus angusticlavius, Tribunus laticlavius, Valerian (emperor), Vexillatio, Victorinus, Vienna, Vindobona, War of Actium, War of Mutina, Watling Street, Wroxeter, Year of the Four Emperors.

Legio XIV Gemina, the Glossary

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Comitatenses

Military units and formations established in the 1st century BC

Roman legions in Britain

References