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to send Lucius Verus, the co-emperor, to take command of operations, and to supply him with the best generals Rome could produce: Avidius Cassius, Statius Priscus, and Martius Verus.
Accompanied by Marcus Aurelius as far as Capua,[1] Verus set out for Syria, where he arrived in 162. Not only were troops gathered from the oriental provinces, but three legions were brought from the Rhine and the Danube.[2] These were the I Minervia under M. Claudius Fronto,[3] the II Adiutrix, later under Q. Antistius Adventus,[4] and the V Macedonica under P. Martius Verus.[5] Parts or all of the following legions
- ↑ Capit. Verus 6. 7 and Marcus Antoninus 8. 10.
- ↑ On the campaign see E. Napp, De rebus imperatore M. Aurelio Antonino in Oriente gestis (Bonnae, 1879 [diss.]); C. Harold Dodd, "Chronology of the Eastern Campaigns of the Emperor Lucius Verus," Num. Chron., 4th ser., XI (1911), 209–67; A. von Premerstein, "Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Kaisers Marcus," Klio, XIII (1913), 87–92; and the bibliography cited by Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, II D, pp. 628 f.
- ↑ CIL, VI, No. 1377 = Dessau 1098. Cf. also CIL, III, No. 1457 = Dessau 1097; CIL, XIII, No. 8213 (see Klio, XI [1911], 357 f.). Lucian Quomodo hist. 21 probably also refers to this Fronto.
- ↑ CIL, VIII, No. 18893, and Dessau 8977 show the transfer of Adventus to the Adiutrix in a.d. 164. In 162 he was legate of the VI Ferrata.
- ↑ CIL, III, No. 6189; CIL, III, No. 7505 = Dessau 2311. The legion served under M. Statius Priscus also. Of the oriental legions, the III Cyrenaica appears on an undated graffito from Dura-Europus which might belong to this time; see C. B. Welles in Bauer, Rostovtzeff, and Bellinger, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Fourth Season, pp. 150 f., No. 294.
