Carried as a badge of office by a centurio and made of vine wood. One man, Lucilius, famously breaking them whilst administering corporal punishment, was nicknamed ‘Broke Another’ (cedo alteram) according to Tacitus. Plin., NH 14.1.3; 19; Tac., Ann. 1.23; Luc. 6.146; Juv. 8.247. [Goldsworthy 2003]
Literally a ‘vine arbour’, a wooden shed that formed part of a modular system for constructing covered walkways used by besiegers attacking a fortification. According to Vegetius, each was 8Rft (2.4m) wide, 16Rft (4.8m) long, and 7Rft (2.1m) high, with a roof covered in planking and sides in wattlework, an untanned leather or patchwork outer layer rendering the whole fireproof. Plaut., Mil. 2.2.113; Caes., BG 2.12.3; Veg., DRM 4.15. [Campbell 2003]
A night watch, each night being divided into four (the length of which depended upon the time of year and was monitored using a clepsydra or horologium). Veg., DRM 3.8; Livy 5.44.7. [Goldsworthy 2003]
1. A guard or sentry (Caes., BG 8.35; Livy 44.33.8); 2. a member of the military watch and fire brigade in Rome, which was formed into seven cohorts under the Principate (Suet., Aug. 30.1). [Goldsworthy 2003]
A civil settlement outside a fort. CIL XI, 4748; XIII, 7335. [Johnson 1983]
An individual who dealt with sacrifical animals at sacrifices. CIL VI, 2385; XIII, 8292. [Goldsworthy 2003]
Inhabitant of a vicus. RIB 1700; 3503. [Goldsworthy 2003]
A street between buildings, especially barracks. Literally ‘local street’. DMC 13. [Johnson 1983]
1. An amount of money paid to an official to fund them to travel to their new province (Livy 44.22.13); 2. an amount of money paid to a new recruit to fund them to travel to their new unit, normally 75 denarii or 3 aurei (RMR 70). [Goldsworthy 2003]
A road running around the periphery of the camp within the defences. Literally ‘the cloaked street’ (DMC 3). [Johnson 1983]
Per Lineam Valli 
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