[495] Numbers II and III in this series were certainly miliariae, as probably all were.
[496] I agree with Cichorius in distinguishing the Cohors I Sugambrorum V. E. from the Cohors I Claudia Sugambrorum. The first is probably identical with the regiment mentioned by Tacitus as being in Moesia in A.D. 26 (Tac. Ann. iv. 47), the second a later creation distinguished as such by its secondary title.
[497] Mentioned in the cursus honorum of a praefectus whose service lay almost entirely in the Eastern provinces. On this ground and because Cohorts I and II of this series were certainly in the East the regiment has been assigned to Syria. This second argument applies to Cohort IV. Both regiments were in any case in existence at this period.
[498] The title Ulpia is not given in these cases but presumably belonged to the whole series.
[499] Or is this a cohort converted into an ala with the increase of cavalry in the fourth century? In this case it may be identical with the Cohors II Ulpia Equitata mentioned below.
[500] Curiously enough the regiment appears in the Syrian diploma for 157.
[501] Cagnat, however, considers that the regiment was in the province as early as 150, relying on viii. 3917, p. 955.
[502] In the first inscription the regiment is commanded by a tribunus.
[503] This inscription does not, however, prove conclusively that the regiment was stationed in Spain.
[504] Suet. Fr. 278 (Reiffer.) ‘Legio dicitur virorum electio fortium vel certus militum numerus, id est V̅ DC.’