The Roman Imperial Navy: 31 B.C.–A.D. 324 PDF
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/';-=09 )(8* =-0/'] CORNELL STUDIES IN CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY edited by Harry Caplan James Hutton H. L. Jones Volume XXVI The Roman Imperial Navy 31 b.c. -a.D. 324 By Chester G. Starr, Jr. >l*« W S-^?^s Ji<l ^ sii '' /*|r 3 h^ ^^^-^ Ur ( ^^V $~h ^C s ( j 'sr I V ^ 'P' ^xT' W f i*- L The Roman Imperial - Bc. . a. d. 31 324 Navy by Chester G. Starr, Jr., of the department OF HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS published by Cornell University Press at Ithaca, /^Ip^s, New York, for Cornell studies in classical (i^^^^S) PHILOLOGY *94l N^gjjjp^ COPYRIGHT, 1 94 1, BY CORNELL UNIVERSITY CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Foreign Agent: London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA To MY PARENTS For the means of defraying a part of the expense of publishing this volume the Editors are indebted to a grant from the income of the Charles Edwin Bennett Fund for Research in the Classical Languages, a fund created at Cornell University in 1924 by Lawrence Bennett of the Class of 1909 in memory of his father. Preface an to the following pages present attempt explore and of Roman sea organization history imperial power as as our sources In accordance with this fully permit. aim, I have not confined the discussiont o the two great Italian fleets of Misenum and Ravenna, although these must necessarily take a central place, but have gone beyond them to a considera- tion of the provincial fleets and to a study of the manner in which the various flotillas were assigned their proper functions in the maintenance of the Empire. This point of view has dic- tated my use of the term "navy" for a group of independent squadrons which were never integrated into one formal unit. Since previous studies on the subject have been few, it has seemed sufficient to indicate them in the List of Abbreviations or to cite the monographs on the provincial fleets at the appro- priate points in the text. The imperial navy, indeed, has been sadly neglected; there is no treatment of any length in English, and the works by Continental scholars on various phases of the matter are by now somewhat out of date. One of these, however, I should like to single out both because it is the best and because it has been almost entirely ignored; the outstanding merit of the brief study which Camille de la Berge wrote about 1870 is the more remarkable when one reflects that the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum had not yet at that time assembledt he basic evidence in compact form. In any investigation of the imperial navy the eight hundred inscribed stones set up by the members of the sev- eral fleets, terse epitaphs for the most part, must form the main building materials. Apart from them we have only a few per- functory chapters in a thoroughly untrustworthy treatise by the references in the literature fourth-century Vegetius, scattering of the Early Empire, and along with a few coins and papyri some ii
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