Legio X Fretensis

Description

Legio X Fretensis ("Tenth legion of the sea strait") was a Roman legion levied by Augustus Caesar in 41/40 BC to fight during the period of civil war that started the dissolution of the Roman Republic. X Fretensis is then recorded to have existed at least until the 410s. X Fretensis symbols were the bull — the holy animal of the goddess Venus — a ship (probably a reference to the Battles of Naulochus and/or Actium), the god Neptune, and a boar. Go to the map ⬆⬆