Map of the Roman empire in AD 125, under emperor Hadrian, showing the LEGIO X FRETENSIS, stationed at Hierosolyma (Jerusalem), in Judaea province, from AD 73 until the 4th century
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo Vespasian (campaign) Titus Sextus Lucilius Bassus Trajan (campaign) Sextus Julius Severus
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Legio X Fretensis ("Tenth legion of the Strait") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army. It was founded by the young Gaius Octavius (later to become Augustus Caesar) in 41/40 BC to fight during the period of civil war that started the dissolution of the Roman Republic. X Fretensis is then recorded to have existed at least until the 410s.
X Fretensis symbols were the bull — the holy animal of the goddess Venus (mythical ancestor of the gens Julia) — a ship (probably a reference to the Battles of Naulochus and/or Actium), the god Neptune, and a boar. The symbol of Taurus may also mean that it was organized between 20 April and 20 May.
Gemina, which resulted from the amalgamation of LegioX Equestris with another unknown legion; LegioXFretensis, a legion widely known for the suppression...
country (dedicated by) the 10th legion Fretensis Antoniniana. The inscription was dedicated by LegioXFretensis to the emperor Hadrian in the year 129/130...
the Roman governor of Judaea, Lucius Flavius Silva, led Roman legion XFretensis, a number of auxiliary units and Jewish prisoners of war, totaling some...
possibly 78 to 81; the governorship of Judea was paired with command of LegioXFretensis. First proposed by Bartolomeo Borghesi, but later accepted by Syme...
consul. Silva was the commander of the army, composed mainly of the LegioXFretensis, in 72 AD that laid siege to the near-impregnable mountain fortress...
Corbulo, with the legions XV Apollinaris, III Gallica, V Macedonica, XFretensis and XXII, forced Vologases I of Parthia to a compromise peace in 63,...
assert Julius Severus was his uncle. He served as tribune in the legioXFretensis when Julius Severus was governor of Judaea from 132 to 135. That Verus...
Undecimani". lukeuedasarson.com. Retrieved 16 August 2017. Edward Dabrowa, LegioXFretensis: A Prosopographical Study of its Officers (I-III c. A.D.) (Stuttgart:...
Tiberius and became a prominent senator and general, commanding the LegioXFretensis under Vespasian in the First Jewish-Roman War. Trajan's mother was...
vassal kingdom. This was followed by the arrival of the Roman legion LegioXFretensis the following year. Roman authority was minimal during the first century...
Dabrowa, LegioXFretensis, p. 35 Anthony Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), pp. 4f Dabrowa, LegioXFretensis, pp. 47f...
full-scale assault on the Euphrates. LegioXFretensis and men of the other two legions (Legio III Gallica and Legio VI Ferrata) defend the eastern bank...
order of Germanicus to send Syrian-based legions, including Legio VI Ferrata and LegioXFretensis, to Armenia to back him in his planned coronation of Artaxias...
launched raids against communities in the Dead Sea region. The Roman LegioXFretensis rose on Masada in eight camps, and constructed a large siege ramp...
Jewish fortress south of Jerusalem, is conquered and destroyed by LegioXFretensis on their way to Masada. Doncaster is founded by Roman settlers. The...
under the emperor's patronage, Josephus wrote that after the Roman LegioXFretensis, accompanied by Vespasian, destroyed Jericho on 21 June 68, Vespasian...
Jewish fortress south of Jerusalem, is conquered and destroyed by LegioXFretensis on their way to Masada. Doncaster is founded by Roman settlers. The...
from 85 to 89. This post was combined with serving as commander of LegioXFretensis, which at the time was stationed in Jerusalem. After his consulate...
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