Legio XVI Flavia Firma

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]

Map of the Roman empire in AD 125 under emperor Hadrian, showing the Legio XVI Flavia Firma stationed on the river Euphrates at Samosata (Samsat, Turkey), in the Roman province of Syria, where it was stationed from AD 117 until the 4th century

Attested members

Name	Rank	Time frame	Province	Source
Lucius Cornelius Pusio Annius Messalla	legatus	before 70		CIL VI, 37056
Lucius Domitius Apollinaris[4]	legatus	c. 84-87		IGR III.558 = TAM II.569
Lucius Neratius Proculus[5]	legatus	c. 138		CIL IX, 2457
Gaius Septimius Severus[5]	legatus	c. 155
Lucius Fabius Cilo[6]	legatus	between 180 and 184		CIL VI, 1408 = ILS 1141; CIL VI, 1409 = ILS 1142
Lucius Marius Perpetuus[6]	legatus	after 200		CIL III, 1178 = ILS 1165; CIL III, 6709 = ILS 5899
Publius Tullius Varro[7]	tribunus laticlavius	110/115		CIL XI, 3364
Marcus Accenna Helvius Agrippa	tribunus laticlavius	2nd century		CIL II, 1262

See also

• List of Roman legions