Literally ‘brother’, a form of address used for social and military peers. In some instances difficult to distinguish from a blood relative (e.g. AE 2005, 255). Tab. Vind. 248; 255. See also commilito [Goldsworthy 2003]
A German javelin that also served as a thrusting spear for close combat. Tac., Ger. 6; Aul. Gell. 10.25.2. [Bishop and Coulston 2006]
A defensive ditch; f. fastigata: a symmetrically V-sectioned ditch; f. Punica: an asymmetrically V-sectioned ditch. DMC 49; CIL VIII, 979; 2532. See also fossatum [Johnson 1983]
A central open area within a Republican fortification, equivalent to the principia courtyard in one of the Principate. Polybios (6.31.1) uses the equivalent Gk. word (ἀγορἁ, echoed by Jos., BJ 3.5.2) in his description of a Republican camp. Livy 41.2.11; Fest. s.v. [Johnson 1983]
1. In the Republican or Imperial periods, a member of an allied force provided as part of the terms of a treaty (foedus) (Livy 25.18.10; 34.57.9); 2. under the Late Empire, a member of a formation of barbarian troops, from within or outwith the empire, in Roman service because of a treaty agreement (Amm. 18.2.13; CIL VI, 10212). See also bucellarius [Southern and Dixon 1996]
A soldier’s common-law wife or concubine. CIL XI, 39; AE 1934, 36; Pap. Choix 6.8. [Phang 2001]
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Identified by modern commentators with the neck cloth, cravat, or scarf worn by soldiers, ostensibly to prevent chafing caused by armour. See also orarium [Sumner 2009]
Per Lineam Valli 
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