EMBLEM:
Pegasus
BIRTH SIGN:
Capricorn
FOUNDATION:
AD 68, to serve new emperor Galba.
RECRUITMENT AREA:
Initially, Gallia Narbonensis and Italy
POSTINGS:
Misenum, Spain, Mogontiacum, Sirmium, Brigetio, Dacia, Parthia, Brigetio.
BATTLE HONORS:
Battle of Old Camp, AD 70.
Trajan’s Dacian Wars, AD 101–106.
Trajan’s Partian Campaign, AD 114–116.
Marcus Aurelius’ German Wars, AD 161–180.
NOTABLE COMMANDER:
Publius Hevius Pertinax, future emperor.
Thrown together during the war of succession, fighting on Otho’s losing side before making a name for itself under Trajan, it would be one of Stilicho’s legions in the last desperate battles before the fifth-century fall of Rome.”
