{"id":114395,"date":"2022-11-10T13:36:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T12:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&p=114395"},"modified":"2022-11-10T13:36:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T12:36:55","slug":"decimus-furius-octavius-secundus-example-of-career-in-roman-army","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/decimus-furius-octavius-secundus-example-of-career-in-roman-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Decimus Furius Octavius \u200b\u200bSecundus – example of career in Roman army"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting inscription from Philippi<\/a> (Greece<\/a>) has been preserved to our times, describing the life and military service of a certain Decimus Furius Octavius \u200b\u200bSecundus. He was a Roman soldier in the first half of the 2nd century CE. The artefact perfectly shows us what a career in the Roman army<\/a> was like.<\/p>\n

Secundus was from the city of Cures in central Italy<\/a>, west of the road via Salaria<\/em>. He had the inscription erected at his own expense.<\/p>\n

Secudnus began his military career as a soldier in the 10th city cohort<\/a>, and then was transferred to the Praetorian Guard, specifically to the 6th Cohort. He then held a position on the headquarters of the Praetorian Prefect and then became optio<\/em> and the de facto deputy commander of the VI Praetorian Cohort. Later he became ensign (signifer<\/a><\/em>), then treasurer of the branch (curator fisci<\/em>), to finally take the position of cornicularius<\/em>, adjutant of the centurion. After serving 16 years in the Praetorian Squads, he was given the opportunity to remain in service as evocatus Augusti<\/em> (after having been honourably retired from the division).<\/p>\n

Secundus then joined the regular legion – he became the centurion of the legion\u00a0X Fretensis<\/em> that took part in suppressing the Bar Kochba revolt in Judea (132-135 CE). During the fights he deserved courage, for which he received corona aurea<\/em>, necklace (torques<\/em>), bracelets (armillae<\/em>) and round medallions attached to the chest (phalerae<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Secundus was then transferred to the legion I Italica<\/em>, where he was first a centurion and then a primus pilus<\/em> – the highest-ranking centurion in the Roman legion<\/a> and commander of the first cohort.<\/p>\n

Secudnus left the service and entered the equine status to devote himself finally as an official (duumvir<\/em>) in the cities of Actia Nicopolis<\/a> and Ulipa in Epirus, mainly in overseeing censuses.<\/p>\n

As we can see, Secundus held offices<\/a> of a bureaucratic nature (mainly the period of service in praetorian divisions) and military (period of service in the legions) during his career. Finally, after retiring from regular military service, Secundus made a civil sacrifice<\/a> in the local community in which he settled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40216,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[147],"class_list":["post-114395","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/114395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/114395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=114395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}