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2 unusual facts about legio VI Ferrata


Gaius Julius Archelaus Antiochus Epiphanes

Paetus invaded the Kingdom of Commagene, as head of the Legio VI Ferrata.

Legio VI Ferrata

From 54 AD to 68 AD the Sixth Legion Ferrata served under Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo at Artaxata and Tigranocerta against the Parthians.


Caius Bruttius Praesens

He is next heard of in the winter of 114/115, during Trajan’s Parthian war, commanding Legio VI Ferrata, which according to a fragment of the Parthica of Arrian he marched in deep snow (having secured snowshoes from native guides) across the Armenian Taurus to get to Tigranakert.


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