Old soldiers often retired together in military towns, called ‘colonia’. An auxiliary was a soldier who was not a Roman citizen. He was only paid a third of a legionary’s wage. Auxiliaries ...

Roman army re-enactors wearing armour and holding javelins. There were two main types of Roman soldiers: legionaries and auxiliaries. The Roman army was huge. It was divided up into groups called ...

The practice of the empire was to include auxiliary units of locals into a regular Roman army and dromedarii played a significant role in the war efforts against Parthian and Sassanid states.

"If we are correct and these inscriptions were written by members of an auxiliary Roman military unit in the desert," Salameen speculated The Safaitic inscriptions mention several conflicts ...