[277] If the Brittones were really, as has been suggested, transported wholesale to Germany, these numeri also would have preserved their national character.
[278] These disappeared during the period, which came in the history of almost every regiment, when it contained drafts from different nationalities.
[279] This is shown by Hyginus, 43, as von Dom. has pointed out, Rangordnung, p. 60.
[280] Dio, lxviii. 8 and 32.
[281] Arrian, Tactica, 44.
[282] The Κελτοὶ ἱππῆς, however, which are mentioned in the Ectaxis, 2, are probably, as Ritterling (Wiener Studien, xxiv. 127-40) suggests, cavalry of the Cohors Germanorum M. E.
[283] The nearest case I know of is xiii. 3177, where we have the order signifer-centurio-tribunus, but this is in one of the Cohortes civium Romanorum, which occupy an exceptional position.
[284] Rangordnung, pp. 112-15, 122-30.
[285] ix. 996, x. 4862.
[286] Rangordnung, pp. 57, 72. He also considers that at this date the centurions and decurions of the auxiliary regiments were drawn from the ranks of the legions, a suggestion which has already been discussed. See above, [p. 38].