Legio XVI Flavia Firma ("Steadfast Flavian Sixteenth Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army. The legion was created by Emperor Vespasian in 70 from the remains of the XVI Gallica (which had surrendered in the Batavian rebellion). The unit still existed in the 4th century, when it guarded the Euphrates border and camped in Sura (Syria). The emblem of the legion was a Pegasus,[1] [2] although earlier studies assumed it to have been a lion.[3]
Name | Rank | Time frame | Province | Source | |
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Lucius Cornelius Pusio Annius Messalla | legatus | before 70 | |||
Lucius Domitius Apollinaris[4] | legatus | c. 84-87 | IGR III.558 = TAM II.569 | ||
Lucius Neratius Proculus[5] | legatus | c. 138 | |||
Gaius Septimius Severus | legatus | c. 155 | |||
Lucius Fabius Cilo[6] | legatus | between 180 and 184 | = ILS 1141; = ILS 1142 | ||
Lucius Marius Perpetuus | legatus | after 200 | = ILS 1165; = ILS 5899 | ||
Publius Tullius Varro[7] | tribunus laticlavius | c. 120 | =ILS 1047 | ||
Marcus Accenna Helvius Agrippa | tribunus laticlavius | 2nd century |