[356] Tac. Ann. iv. 47; id. Hist. ii. 22.
[357] Cf. Dio’s remarks on the impression made by the provincial legionaries in Rome in the reign of Septimius Severus, lxxiv. 2. The following sketch applies only to the troops on the Western frontiers, concerning whose life we have considerable evidence. The locally raised troops in the East started as a rule at a higher level of culture, but possibly a similar advance was made by Trajan’s regiments of Paphlagonians, Galatians, and Arabians, although here Hellenization, not Romanization, was of course the goal.
[358] For the importance of Mithras in the army, cf. Cumont, Les Mystères de Mithra. Toutain, Les Cultes païens dans l’Empire romain, cc. ii and iv, gives a classified list of the inscriptions of Mithra and Dolichenus.
[359] H. Jacobi, Führer durch das Römerkastell Saalburg, 1908, gives a summary of the latest results.
[360] Excavations so far have been confined to the fort itself, in which the buildings were in an exceedingly good state of preservation, and the Mithraeum.
[361] xiii. 7800 ‘Petronius Athenodorus prae(fectus) coh(ortis) I Fl(aviae) horologium ab horis intermissum et vetustate colabsum suis inpendis restituit’. The date is 218.
[362] Herodian iii. 8, 5.
[363] _Rheinisches Museum_, xlviii. 616 ff.
[364] viii. 18067.
[365] _A. E._ 1910. 75.