FOOTNOTES:
[446] See above, [pp. 53-5].
[447] Any one desirous of further information on any particular regiment will find a summary of the evidence, in so far as it was then available, in Cichorius’s articles in Pauly-Wissowa., s.v. ala and cohors, to which I am deeply indebted.
[448] A date without an epigraphical reference refers to a ‘diploma’. The following abbreviations have been used: E(quitata), M(iliaria), C(ivium) R(omanorum), V(eteranorum), S(agittariorum), P(ia) F(idelis). C. H. means that the inscription referred to gives the cursus honorum of an officer.
[449] The inscription cannot be accurately dated, but the regiment was presumably raised at an early date like others with similar titles.
[450] Inscriptions thus referred to come from the area in Scotland only effectively occupied between these dates.
[451] The inscription comes from Newstead, which was probably also occupied from 80 to 100, but the soldier’s name, Aelius, suggests a later date.
[452] A C. H. mentioning a praefectus cohortis I Astyrum provinciae Britanniae. The regiment is hardly likely to be a third-century creation.
[453] The Notitia mentions the first cohort, but inscriptions suggest that it was the second which apparently garrisoned the station referred to. The reference shows, at any rate, that one of the two survived.
[454] Epigraphical evidence suggests that the Cohors I Frixagorum of the Notitia is identical with this regiment.