Terrasidius

Gallienus coin, celebrating LEG VII CLA VI P VI F (Seventh legion Claudia, six times faithful, six times loyal, and bearing the bull, symbol of the legion, on the reverse.

Titus Terrasidius was a Roman Knight of the Equestrian order and an officer of the cavalry in Julius Caesar's Legio VII Claudia.[1][2] He and other officers of the legion were sent out to negotiate provisions for the winter of 56–55 BC; they were captured by Breton tribes who were then subjugated as Caesar describes in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico:

The occasion of that war was this: Publius Crassus, a young man, had taken up his winter-quarters with the seventh legion among the Andes, who border upon the Ocean. He, as there was a scarcity of corn in those parts, sent out some officers of cavalry [who would be equites], and several military tribunes [who would be of senatorial rank] among the neighbouring states, for the purpose of procuring corn and provision; in which number Titus Terrasidius was sent among the Esubii; Marcus Trebius Gallus among the Curiosolitae; Quintus Velanius, [and] Titus Silius, amongst the Veneti.

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References

  1. ^ Julius Caesar; James Bradstreet Greenough; Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge; Moses Grant Daniell (1904). Caesar's Gallic war: (Allen and Greenough's edition). books I-IV. Ginn & Company. pp. 1–.
  2. ^ Julius Caesar (1895). Gallic War: With a Life of Caesar, Geography and People of Gaul, History of the Military Art in Caesar's Commentaries ... Albert, Scott and Company. pp. 262–.
  3. ^ wikisource:Commentaries on the Gallic War
  4. ^ Julius Caesar; Jeremias Jacob Oberlin (1825). Commentarii de bello Gallico et civili: Accedunt libri de bello Alexandrino, Africano, et Hispaniensi. apud R. Priestley. pp. 64. Retrieved 4 December 2011..