Ancient Roman soldiers

1st-century Roman military commander and writer

Arminius (; 18/17 BC–AD 21; Hermann in German) was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who is best known for commanding an alliance of Germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9, in which three Roman legions under the command of general and governor Publius Quinctilius Varus were destroyed. His victory at Teutoburg Forest precipitated the Roman Empire's permanent strategic withdrawal and the deprovincialization of Germania Magna, and modern historians regard it as one of Imperial Rome's greatest defeats. As it prevented the Romanization of Germanic peoples east of the

4th-century Roman historian and soldier

Roman historian, soldier and senator (c.19 BC - c. AD 31)

thumb|Illustration from the Rabbula Gospels, AD 586: Longinus is labelled "". Longinus (Greek: Λογγίνος) is the name of a Roman soldier who supposedly pierced the side of Jesus with a lance, who in apostolic and some modern Christian traditions is described as a convert to Christianity. His name first appeared in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus. The lance is called in Catholic Christianity the "Holy Lance" (lancea) and the story is related in the Gospel of John during the Crucifixion. This act is said to have created the last of the Five Holy Wounds of Christ.

6th-century BC Roman youth famous for his bravery

first Gentile to convert to Christianity

5th-century saint and theologian

assassin of emperor Caligula

Roman military commander

patron saint of Bergamo, Capriate San Gervasio, and Cervignano d'Adda

thumb|Statue of Jupiter Dolichenus from [[Carnuntum, erected by Atilius Primus, an evocatus of the Legio XIV Gemina. The dative form ēvocātō is visible at left.]] An evocatus (: evocati) was a soldier in the Ancient Roman army who had served out his time and obtained an honorable discharge (honesta missio) but had voluntarily enlisted again at the invitation of the consul or other commander.

Roman soldier of the Cohors I Sagittariorum (c. 22 BC - AD 40)

late 1st/early 2nd century Roman cavalryman

prefect of the Roman imperial bodyguard, the Praetorian Guard (46 BC-16 AD)

1st/2nd century Roman senator and suffect consul

paternal grandfather of the Roman Emperor Vespasian

early Christian saints

Roman soldier and assassin of Pompey the Great

son of a Cheruscan chief called Segimerus and a younger brother to the German leader Arminius

Bulgarian saint

Bulgarian saint

Ancient Roman soldier

soldier saint

Dulcitius may refer to either of two ancient Roman officials active in the fourth century AD.

thumb|Stephaton, to the right of Jesus, in the earliest crucifixion in an illuminated manuscript, from the Syriac [[Rabbula Gospels, 586. Unlike Longinus, he is not named here]] thumb|James Tissot's depiction. Here, the hyssop stick is used as a kind of straw, and "Stephaton" squeezes the sponge. (, [[gouache over graphite on grey wove paper)]] Stephaton, or Steven, is the name given in medieval Christian traditions to the Roman soldier or bystander, unnamed in the Bible, who offered Jesus a sponge soaked in vinegar wine at the Crucifixion. In later depictions of the Crucifixion, Stephaton is

Roman senator (440-511)

Roman rebel during the reign of Commodus