Bellum Batonianum /6-9 y/

 "The Archaeology of RomanSouthern Pannonia"

(The state of research and selected problems in the Croatian part of the Roman province of Pannonia)
Edited by
Branka Migotti

     Wilkes assumed that VII, VIII Augusta and XI legion could have been under the command of Caecina Severus at that time, while  IV Scythica and V Macedonica came from the East, but not all authors agree with this opinion. There are even doubts as to whether Caecina Severus took allthree Moesian legions along on this campaign, and only two legions in Caecina’s and Plautius’s joint forces are assumed to have actually been Moesian.
     IV Scythica was probably one of Caecina’s legions, because it seems to have been permanently stationed in Moesia during the ruleof Augustus.
     V Macedonica and the VII legion were most probably transferred from Galatia under the command of Plautius Silvanus, but the question of the VIII and XI legion remains open. As for the VIII legion, depending on the author in question, it is assumed that it may have been stationed in Illyricum, Moesia, in the East, in northern Africa or Egypt, while the XI legion was most probably stationed in the Balkans at the time in question, but it is impossible to say exactly where. Plautius’s third legion (if the assumption on three Eastern legions is correct in the first place) could perhaps be the VIII legion, but it could also have been one of the 3 Moesian legions, together with the IV and XI. The question also remains open as to the legion that Caecina Severus could have perhaps left behind in Moesia; cf. Ritterling 1925, 1234-1236, 1645, 1691; Wilkes1969, 93; Oldenstein-Pferdehirt 1984, 397; Redd 2000, 120-121; Speidel 2000, 327-328; Strobel 2000, 520, 525, 527; Farnum 2005, 4-5, 18-19, 20-22, 95. 53
     We can assume that these were Tiberius’ IX, XIII, XIV, XV and XX,as well as  IV Scythica, V Macedonica, VII, VIII and XI that arrived from Moesia
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ROMAN LEGIONS: 59 BC-69 AD