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minted by Septimius Severus to celebrate XIIII ''Gemina Martia Victrix'', the legion that proclaimed him emperor. Note the Eagle standard, the symbol of the Roman legions.]] Legio XIV ''Gemina Martia Victrix'' was a Legion of the Roman Empire , levied by Octavian after 41 BC . The '' Cognomen '' ''Gemina'' (''twin'' in Latin) suggests that the legion resulted from fusion of two previous ones, one of them possibly being the Fourteenth legion that fought in the Battle Of Alesia . ''Martia Victrix'' (martial victory) were cognomens added by Nero following the victory over Boudica . The emblem of the legion was the Capricorn , as with many of the legions levied by Augustus. XIV ''Gemina Martia Victrix'' was one of four legions used by Aulus Plautius and Claudius in the Roman Invasion Of Britain in 43 , and took part in the defeat of Boudicca in 60 or 61 . In 68 it was stationed in Gallia Narbonensis . In 89 the governor of Germania Superior , Lucius Antonius Saturninus , rebelled against Domitian , with the support of the XIVth and of the XXI ''Rapax'' , but the revolt was suppressed. When the XXIst was lost, in 92 , the XIV ''Gemina'' was sent in Pannonia to substitute, camping in ''Vindobona'' ( Vienna ). After a war with the Sarmatians , the legion was moved to '' Carnuntum '', where it stayed for three centuries. Some subunits of the XIVth fought in the wars against the Mauri , under Antoninus Pius , and the legion partecipated to the Parthian campaign of Emperor Lucius Verus . During his war against the Marcomanni , Emperor Marcus Aurelius based his headquarters in Carnuntum. In 193 , after the death of Pertinax , the commander of the XIVth, Septimius Severus , was acclaimed emperor by the Pannonian legions, and above all by his own. The XIV ''Gemina'' fought for its emperor in his march to Rome to attack usurper Didius Julianus (193), contributed to the defeat of the usurper Pescennius Niger (194), and probably fought in the Parthian campaign that ended with the sack of the capital of the empire, Ctesiphon (198). In the turmoil following the defeat of Valerian , the XIV ''Gemina'' supported usurper Regalianus against Emperor Gallienus (260), then Gallienus against Postumus of the Gallic Empire (earning the title ''VI Pia VI Fidelis'' — "six times faithful, six times loyal"), and, after Gallienus death, Gallic Emperor Victorinus (269-271). At the beginning of the 5th Century , XIV ''Gemina'' still stayed at Carnuntum. It probably dissolved with the collapse of the Danube frontier in 430s . The '' Notitia Dignitatum '' lists a ''Quartodecimani'' Comitatensis unit under the '' Magister Militum per Thracias''; it is possible that this unit is XIV ''Gemina''. SEE ALSO
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