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Evocati

PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:14 pm
by Marcus Pomponius Lupus
Salvete,

While reading Tacitus, we came across a class of soldiers, known as the "Evocati", soldiers whose military service is fulfilled and who can retire, but are asked to stay anyway, because of their experience.

Does anyone know something more about them, a famous example perhaps ?

Valete bene
Lupus

PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:09 pm
by Horatius Piscinus
Salve Lupe

Caesar mentions one by name, a centurian who was killed while leading an assault. I don't recall now which campaign that was, but if I find it again I will send it along.

Vale

evocati name found

PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:07 am
by Anonymous
http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Commentar ... _Liber_III

In Book III Chapter 91 of the Bello Civile you find the name of the evocatusCaius Crastinus.

And look in Wikipedia(English rdition) under Evocati you find good information.
Greetings turanclancath AKA Don Turan :):):)

Re: Evocati

PostPosted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:06 am
by Quintus Pomponius Atticus
Marcus Pomponius Lupus wrote:Salvete,

While reading Tacitus, we came across a class of soldiers, known as the "Evocati", soldiers whose military service is fulfilled and who can retire, but are asked to stay anyway, because of their experience.

Does anyone know something more about them, a famous example perhaps ?


Lucius Vorenus ? :mrgreen:

Serious now. I looked it up in a general book on the Roman army but could not find any more information or examples.

I did find 1 (!) article in a Roman army bibliography on the net :

Birley, Eric, "Evocatus Aug. A review," ZPE 43 (1981) 25-29.

Vale,

Atticus

Look and you shall find ( zoek en gij zult vinden :):):)

PostPosted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:09 pm
by Anonymous
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~bkharvey/ ... dVerus.htm
And this is the tombstone inscription of a real EVOCATUS Marcus Caesius Verus ( 1 century AD ) .
I searched on the net with terms as Evocati in the roman army ,Veterans in the Roman army, Evocati in dass Roemische Heer, les evocati dans l armee romain etc.
I found a lot of references.
Greetings from Holland Don Turan.

Evocati

PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:31 am
by Aldus Marius
Salvete amici...

My concept of the evocati has been that they were more or less like some of today's Reservists: retired, but still subject to call-up in times of national emergency. I think I might have read a little about them in Graham Webster, The Roman Imperial Army of the 1st and 2nd Centuries AD. These "reservists" may even have met from time to time for "drill weekends" to maintain their readiness. And they were volunteers.

In fide,

PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2008 11:06 am
by Tiberius Iulius Draco
From what i know Evocati are soldiers who finished the obligatory military duty and chose or were offered to remain in the army. I envision them as something similar to the earlier Triarii...