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Identifier: historyofallnati05wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fig. 33. i —Military diploma. ^ size of original. (Munich, Antiqnarium.) 1 This diploma is copied from an original document — a bronze tablet — issued in Rome,June 29, 107 A.D., to Mogetissa, son of Comatullus, of the tribe of the Boii. He hadserved as an ordinary private in the cavalry troop ala prinin Iliftpanoriim anriana.This copy was prepared for his wife Verecunda, the daughter of Casatus, a lady ofthe tribe of the Sequani, and for her daughter Matrulla. It served alike as certifi-cate of honorable discharge from military service and as evidence of Roman citi-zenship for Mogetissa and his family. It was discovered in 1867. The inscription reads: IMPerator CAESAR DIVI NERVAE Filius NERVA TRAI-ANVS AVGustus GERMANICus J)ACICVS PONTIFex MAXIMVS Tt^IBV-NlCia POTESTate XI IMPerator VI COnSul V Pater Patriae EQVITIBVs ETPEDITIBVS QVI MILITAVERVXT IN ALIS QVAT(S)VOR ET COHORTIBVS 122
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