The fourth line (-augete auxilia vostris iustis Iegibus-) has reference to the supplementary payments imposed on the negligent Latin colonies in 550 (Liv.
It is, indeed, always worn by the Praetorians on the Marcus column, but the auxilia still appear in chain-mail as on the column of Trajan.
A stronger argument is perhaps to be found in inscriptions which contain the phrase legio … et auxilia eius.
Few auxilia were raised from Narbonensis and Baetica, because the greater part of the inhabitants of these provinces had received the franchise and were consequently eligible for service in the legions.
It is perhaps relevant to discuss here a point affecting the auxilia as a whole, namely, their relation to the legions in the general scheme of military organization.
From this moment the Roman generals depended for their cavalry upon the auxilia alone.
The increased oriental element, which is certainly noticeable among the auxilia of this period, although not to the same extent as in other branches of the service, is a more significant fact.
This system is heartily commended by von Domaszewski, on the ground that the auxilia were thus commanded by more skilful officers, and were more under Roman (i.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "auxilia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
