Legio IV Scythica Legio IIII Scythica Legio Quarta Scythica
Map of the Roman Empire under the reign of Hadrian (125 CE), showing the Fourth Legion Scythica, stationed on the river Euphrates at Zeugma (near modern Gaziantep, Turkey), in the Roman province of Syria, from 68 CE until possibly the 4th century.
Active
c. 42 BCE until 219 CE (confirmed)
Country
Roman Republic (closing years) and Roman Empire
Type
Roman legion
Military unit
Coin issued by Philip the Arab for his wife Marcia Otacilia Severa. On the reverse in the exergue, a capricorn, in reference to IIII Scythica, beneath a tetrastyle temple; mint of Zeugma, Roman Syria, a legionary camp. BMC 34.
Legio IV Scythica ("Scythian Fourth Legion"), also written as Legio IIII Scythica,[1] was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in c. 42 BCE by the Roman general Mark Antony, for his campaign against the Parthian Empire, hence its other cognomen, Parthica. The legion was still active in the Roman province of Syria in the early 5th century.
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LegioIVScythica ("Scythian Fourth Legion"), also written as Legio IIII Scythica, was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in c. 42 BCE by the...
fidelis. Parker postulates that when LegioIVScythica was transferred from Moesia to Syria between AD 55 and 62, Legio VII Claudia was moved to Moesia to...
around the mid-first century CE. He was III vir monetalis, tribune of LegioIVScythica and quaestor under Tiberius. He was appointed tribune of the plebs...
of Tiberius and became a prominent senator and general, commanding the Legio X Fretensis under Vespasian in the First Jewish-Roman War. Trajan's mother...
tribune, quality figures of the LegioIVScythica, quaestor, tribune of the plebs and legatus legionis of the Legio XXI Rapax. The amphitheater is used...
new Legate of Cappadocia, to manage the matter. Corbulo ordered Legion IVScythica from Moesia, and along with the III Gallica and VI Ferrata defeated the...
commander of Legio III Gallica, who ironically was the first to proclaim Elagabalus as emperor, and Gellius Maximus, the commander of LegioIVScythica. These...
f. Rufus, a contemporary of Augustus, was military tribune in the LegioIVScythica, became one of the municipal duumvirs, decurion, and augur at Suasa...
Iscariot carried the disciples' money bag. During the Roman era, the LegioIVScythica was camped in Zeugma, a city of Commagene (modern-day Turkey). Excavations...
(emblem: bull) LegioIV Macedonica (Macedonian): 48 BC – AD 70 (renamed by Vespasian), Julius Caesar (emblem: bull, capricorn) LegioIVScythica (from Scythia):...
rhetoric and literary studies. As a military man, Gordian commanded the LegioIVScythica when the legion was stationed in Syria. He served as governor of Roman...
antiquity (Zeugma was the headquarters of an important Roman legion, the LegioIVScythica, near the border with Parthia) the city has maintained its importance...
Syria, executed, originally an officer of LegioIVScythica Verus (late 219), in Syria, executed, commander of Legio III Gallica Uranius (c. 221), questioned...
Marcus Aurelius, VI, 2.1. In addition, some detachments of the Roman army (Legio I Parthica and Cohors IX Maurorum [Gordiana]) were left at Hatra. 231 Emperor...
of offices: a hitch as military tribune in LegioIVScythica, then another hitch as military tribune in Legio X Fretensis. He returned to Rome to serve...
II Traiana (?), III Augusta, III Italica, LegioIV Flavia Felix, Legio V Macedonica, Legio X Gemina, Legio XIII Gemina and XXII Primigenia. The total...
problematic. Celsus was then commissioned legatus legionis or commander of LegioIVScythica (c. 81–82 CE); with this, Bernard Rémy observes, Celsus became the...
an Aulus Vicirius A.f. Proculus, attested as a military tribune of LegioIVScythica and flamen Augusti during the reign of Claudius, who was buried at...
the Roman Senate. Next he was commissioned a military tribune in LegioIVScythica, during which time he distinguished himself, earning dona militaria...
quattuorviri viarum curandarum, then served as military tribune in LegioIVScythica, then stationed in Moesia. As a quaestor, he was one of those allocated...
probably occupied by cohors IV Gallorum equitata. When the Danube defences were strengthened a second legion (LegioIVScythica) was also stationed here...
an Aulus Vicirius A.f. Proculus, attested as a military tribune of LegioIVScythica and flamen Augusti during the reign of Claudius, and interred at Siena...
name has not been preserved (the two most likely units are Legio XIV Gemina or LegioIVScythica), then governor of Gallia Aquitania; Géza Alföldy offers...
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