Tabula ansata | Winged board. |
Tabularium | Administrative department. |
Tabularium equitum | Administrative office of the legionary cavalry. |
Tagma | Military unit. term used by Josephus for legion. |
Tarentinos | Light cavalryman armed with javelins. |
Taxiarchos | Senior military officer. used as equivalent of tribunus . |
Taxis | Military unit. |
Tector | Cavalry trooper equipped with large shield. |
Tegimentum | Protective garment worn over armour. |
Tegimentum scuti | Protective shield cover. |
Telos | Military unit. word used by Josephus for legion. |
Telum | Missile. |
Terebra | Siege machine for drilling holes in walls. |
Tèroon | Recruit. |
Tertius ordo | 'Third officer'.
A - centurion of the third cohort of a legion
B - naval officer of uncertain rank. |
Tès hippou stratègos | 'General of the cavalry'. Greek term for magister equitum , a senior late Roman commander. |
Tessera | Writing tablet. |
Tesserarius | NCO in charge of the watchword. |
Testamentum militare | Military will. soldiers were granted the right to make a will that did not have to conform to all formal legal requirements. |
Testudo | Tortoise formation. |
Thoorakitès | Skirmisher equipped with body armour. |
Thoracomachus | Padded armour. |
Thoorax | Body armour. |
Thyreophoros | 'Shieldbearer'.
A - any soldier equipped with body shield
B - light infantryman equipped with large shield in Hellenistic armies. |
Thyreophoros lonchophoros | Shieldbearing javelineer. legionary javelineer deployed in the four rear ranks of Arrian's battle formation. |
Thyreos | Large shield. |
Thyreos epimèkès | Oblong shield. |
Tibiale | A - legging.
B - greave. |
Tiro | Recruit. |
Tirocinium | Recruit's first campaign. |
Titulum | Stretch of wall and ditch in front of a marching camp gate. |
Tolleno | Siege crane. |
Tormentum | Torsion gun. |
Torques | Neck ornament awarded as military decoration. |
Tou tagmatos hippikon | Legionary cavalry. |
Toxotès | Archer. |
Toxon | Bow. |
Trabes | Signalling device. |
Tragularius | A - javelineer.
B - archer. |
Tragulum | Missile. |
Translatio | Transfer. |
Translatus | Transferred soldier. |
Transvectio equitum | Annual parade in Rome by the equites Romani at which their horses and equipment were inspected. |
Trecenarius | Senior praetorian or legionary centurion of somewhat unclear status. |
Tres militiae | The three postings of a full equestrian military career.
A - praefectus cohortis
B - tribunus angusticlavius / tribunus cohortis
C - praefectus alae . |
Triarius | 'Third liner'. heavy legionary infantry soldier. |
Triarius ordo | Centurion of the triarii or pili . |
Triarius prior | Senior centurion of a manipulus of the triarii . |
Triboli | Caltrops. |
Tribounos | Greek equivalent of tribunus . senior officer. |
Tribunal | Raised platform in front of the HQ used for addressing the troops or administring justice. |
Tribunus | Senior officer. |
Tribunus angusticlavius | 'Narrow striped officer'. equestrian legionary officer. |
Tribunus cohortis | Commander of auxiliary unit. |
Tribunus comitiatus | Officer elected as tribunus militum by the comitia . |
Tribunus laticlavius | 'Broadstriped officer'. senatorial legionary officer. |
Tribunus militum | Senior legionary officer. |
Tribunus militum a populo | Senior legionary officer appointed by popular assembly. |
Tribunus Rufulus | Officer picked by the commander. |
Tribunus sexmestris | Tribune serving a tour of duty of only six months. note that there is absolutely no evidence at all to identify this officer as commander of the legionary cavalry as sometimes stated in modern literature. |
Tribunus vacans | Late Roman unassigned tribune. staff officer. |
Trierarchus | Naval officer. ship's captain. |
Trièrès | Trireme. galley with single oarsmen on three levels. |
Triremis | Trireme. galley with single rowers on three levels. |
Triumphalia ornamenta | The insignia of a triumphator . |
Triumphator | Victorious army commander granted the right of holidng a triumphus . |
Triumphus | Triumphal entry into the city of Rome. highest honour bestowed on victorious commander. |
Tuba | Trumpet. |
Tubicen | Trumpeter. |
Tubicen princeps | Senior trumpeter. |
Tumultuarius | Irregular auxiliary. |
Tumultus | Mobilisation. |
Tunica | Tunic. |
Tunica palmata | Gold embroidered purple garment worn by triumphator . |
Turma | Cavalry unit. |
Turmalis | Soldier belonging to a turma . trooper. |
Turris | Tower. |
Turris ambulatoria | Siege tower. |
Turritus | Turreted. |
