[366] Cagnat, _L’Armée romaine d’Afrique_, pp. 380-3 and 505-7.
[367] e.g. D. iii (64), a wife, son, and daughter; D. xcviii (105), a wife, son, and two daughters; D. xxxvii (110), three sons. See above, [p. 32].
[368] iii. 3271. The approximate date of the inscription is sufficiently indicated by the names employed.
[369] This very comprehensive dedication comes from the shrine of Mandoulis, the source of many military inscriptions.
[370] The possibility that cives had already been admitted into the auxiliary regiments before this date has already been discussed. See above, [p. 33].
[371] iii. 10316 and _A. E._ 1910. 144.
[372] The campaigns between Severus and his rivals (193-7) were fought out by vexillations; hence at the end of the war we find all the regiments on both sides, so far as they can be traced, in their old quarters.
[373] Historia Augusta, Vita Alex. Sev. 58 ‘Sola, quae de hostibus capta sunt, limitaneis ducibus et militibus donavit, ita ut eorum essent, si heredes eorum militarent, nec umquam ad privatos pertinerent, dicens attentius eos militaturos, si etiam sua rura defenderent’. The theory of the self-sufficiency of each provincial garrison could not be more clearly expressed.