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Legio IX
Hispana ("9th
Hispanian Legion"), also
written as
Legio VIIII Hispana, was a
legion of the
Imperial Roman army that
existed from the 1st century...
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subtracted from the
larger one (V, or X), thus
avoiding the
clumsier IIII and
VIIII.
Subtractive notation is also used for 40 (XL), 90 (XC), 400 (CD) and 900...
- quīnque V five **** VI six
septem VII
seven octō IIX or VIII
eight novem VIIII or IX nine
decem X ten quīnquāgintā L
fifty centum C one
hundred quīngentī...
- s[e]c(utor) vix(it) ann(os) **** / pugna(vi)t ****IIII
vicit XXI /
stans VIIII mis(sus) IIII nat(ione)
Syrus / ****(c)
Delicatus coarmio merenti fecit....
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Duncan B Campbell, The fate of the Ninth: The
curious disappearance of
Legio VIIII Hispana",
Ancient Warfare Ancient Rome
portal Signa Militaria", by James...
-
Historical Dictionary of Reconstruction. New York:
Greenwood Press. pp.
viiii. ISBN 9780313258626. "Abraham Lincoln". Blue and Gray Trail.
Archived from...
- (Domitian)
featuring Minerva,
dated c. 90 AD, IMP CAES
DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P
VIIII,
laureate head right; IMP XXI COS XV CENS P P P,
Minerva standing left,...
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numerals but the
number four is
usually marked IIII
rather than IV and nine
VIIII rather than IX
because the four and nine
could be
mistaken for a six or...
- (1985 edition), p.338. The
inscription reads:
DEDICATIO BASILICAE SCI
PAVLI VIIII KL MAI ANNO XV
ECFRIDI REG
CEOLFRIDI ABB
EIVSDEMQ Q
ECCLES DO
AVCTORE CONDITORIS...
- this only two years, two
months and
twenty days".
Suetonius gives 23 June (
VIIII. Kal. Iul.). However, he also
states that he died "at the age of sixty-nine...
