Legio VI Victrix

[Guest Lugo]

Greetings from Lugo (Lucus Augusti)

I want to add more information about the Legio VI "Victrix", years ago in some archeological excavations was founded an engraving stone with the mark of the Legio VI.

 

Lucus Augusti, nowadays called Lugo keep the roman walls completely integrated in the city

 

 

With Bracara Augusta (Braga) and Asturica Augusta (Astorga) Lugo formed the three more important roman cities of Gallaecia

[Gaius Octavius]

From: 'The Making of the Roman Army - From Republic to Empire'; Lawrence Keppie; Appendix 2.

 

"VI Victrix

Formed; 41-40? (Octavian); Perusia, 41; movements not reported, 40-31; Spain, 30 BC onwards-AD 69.

 

Emblem: often stated to have a bull-emblem, suggesting (false) Caesarian antecedents, but the evidence is insecure.

 

Titles: Hispaniensis, 'stationed in Spain'. Attested: AE 1917/1918, 2 (Neronian); CIL V4381 = Sup.677; PBSR xli (1973), 12. Victrix (Victorious); first attested: ILS 2648 (Neronian)-that inscription notes a recent victory contra Astures, perhaps the occasion for the award; but AE 1968, 2206 may be earlier."

 

AE = L'Annee Epigraphique, Paris

CIL = Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (Berlin, 1863 0nwards)

PBSR = Papers of the British School at Rome, London

ILS = H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae (Berlin 1892-1916)

[WotWotius]

Let us not forget that the Legio VI Victrix is most famous for constructing part of Hardrian's Wall:

http://www.roman-britain.org/military/leg6victrix.htm

[Gaius Octavius]

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The source you cite is also from Keppie, the same as mine, so we are not at loggerheads. In the same appendix, Keppie notes that 'VI' Ferrata (ironclad) was in Spain in 49 BC. Keppie also indicates the posibility of another 'VI' legion, VI Macedonica, which may have beeen the same legion as VI Ferrata.