- Terrasidius
Titus Terrasidius was a Roman
Knight of the Equestrian order and an officer of the cavalry inJulius Caesar 'sLegio VII Claudia . He and other officers of the legion were sent out to negotiate provisions for the winter of 56-55 BC, as Caesar describes in hisCommentarii de Bello Gallico :cquote|"The occasion of that war was this:
Publius Crassus , a young man, had taken up his winter-quarters with the seventh legion among the Andes, who border upon the Ocean. He, as there was a scarcity of corn in those parts, sent out some officers of cavalry [who would be equites] , and severalmilitary tribune s [who would be of senatorial rank] among the neighbouring states, for the purpose of procuring corn and provision; in which number Titus Terrasidius was sent among theEsubii ;Marcus Trebius Gallus among theCuriosolitae ;Quintus Velanius ,Titus Silius , amongst the Veneti.|" [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Gallic_War/Plain_text] [http://books.google.com/books?id=ciENAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=Commentarii+de+Bello+Gallico+terrasidius&source=web&ots=me6d87_D8Q&sig=URPLwpD-LPmZHLOijXw_HpspCC0#PPA64,M1]References
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