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his Other fcglons of Roman citizens, U 7 iam ex Sicilia 
^oetcrdnam, quam fadla^n ex duabus gemellam appeila- 
vtt (i). T hat there was a legion, which bore the 
title of qiiartadecima getnina\ is evident from feveral 
of Gruter’s infcriptions j but they all relate to foreign 
countries, and not one of them to Britain. It h 
mentioned alfo by Dion, as being in his time, that is, 
under the reign of Severus^ Rationed in Pannonia['i). 
But it appears likewife from Caefar, that he himfelf 
had the legio qiiartadecima with him in Spain, not 
long after the commencement of the civil war (3), 
before the title gemella was introduced by Pompey. 
And therefore had the title gemina been given to tne 
fourteenth legion, either before or while it was in 
Britain ; it can fcarce be fuppofed, that Tacitus, who 
fo often mentions and extols that legion for its great 
■fervices done here, flaould intirely have omited it, 
efpecially as he gives that title to the legio tertiade- 
cima (4). Sir Henry Savile indeed reckons the legio 
quartadecima among thofe of Gallpa, and afcribes to 
it the title of gemina (y). But he produces no other 
authority for it, than the pafiage before mentioned 
from Dion, who there fpeaks of this legion as having 
that title in his own time, without any intimation, 
when it fir ft received it. Befides, that it did not re- 
ceive the title of gemina during its refidence in Bri- 
tain, feems further evident from hence, that we find 
(1) B. C. Lih. iii. cap. 3. 
(2) Lib. Iv. pag. ^64. edit. Leunclav. 
(3) B. C. Lib. I. cap. 44. 
(4) tdiji. Lib. iii. c^. 7. 
(5) Pranjlation of 'Tacitus.^ fub fin. />. 218. 
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