Iaculator | 'Spear thrower'. light legionary foot soldier. |
Iaculum | Missile. javelin. |
Ignominiosa missio | Dishonourable discharge. |
Ilarchès | 'Wing commander'. cavalry officer. |
Ilè | "Wing'. military unit. |
Imaginifer | Standardbearer carrying a likeness of the emperor. |
Imago | Standard with the emperor's portrait. |
Immounos | Soldier exempted from certain duties. |
Immunis | Soldier exempted from certain duties. |
Immunis perpetuus | Soldier permanently freed from fatigue duties. the unusual addition of perpetuus seems to suggest that other immunes may have enjoyed this status for only a limited period of time. |
Impedimenta | Baggage. |
Impeditus | Soldier carrying baggage pack. |
Imperator | Commander-in-chief. emperor. |
Imperium | A - the right to command absolute obedience.
B - empire. |
Impetus | Attack. |
In calceo agens | Serving in equestrian position ie as centurio , praefectus or tribunus . |
In caliga agens | Serving as soldier, NCO or non-equestrian centurio . |
In numeros referre | To enroll. to enter an accepted soldier in the records. |
In praetorio agens | 'Serving at the HQ'. serving in cohortes praetoriae . |
In vestimentum | Clothing expenses. |
In victum | Food expenses. |
Incomma | Standard height. |
Indictio | Levy of tax in kind. |
Inimicus | Hostile, enemy. |
Insidia | Ambush. |
Insidiator | 'Ambusher'. soldier belonging to screening force. flank guard. |
Insigne | Distinguishing mark. |
Interpres | Interpreter. |
Intervallum | Space between the wall and the living quarters of a camp. |
Ioviani | 'Iuppiter's own'. tetrarchic elite legion. |
Iter | March. |
Iter iustum | Normal day's march of 20 Roman miles. |
Itinerarium | Simplified road map. |
Iudex | 'Judge'. Latin name given to Gothic supreme war leader known as the thiudans. |
Iugum | Yoke. gate made of spears under which captive soldiers were made to pass as a humiliation. |
Iumentarius | Soldier or military servant in charge of baggage animals. |
Iumentum | Pack animal. |
Iuniores | 'Recruits'. late Roman unit created around nucleus of veterans detached from another formation. |
Ius conubii | Right to contract a marriage. |
Ius fetiale | 'Fetial law'. religious rules governing Roman external relations and formal declaration of war. |
Iuventus | Paramilitary youth organisation. |
