duplarii

DUPLA´RIIor DUPLICA´RIIwere soldiers who received on account of their good conduct double allowance (duplicia cibaria), and perhaps in some cases double pay likewise. (Varr. L. L. 5.90; Liv. 2.59, 24.47-Z2; Orelli, Inscrip. No. 3535.) The forms occurring are duplicarius (Or. 3533, 4994), dupliciarius (ib. 3534), duplaris (Veget. 2.7), duplarius (Or. 3531, 3535, &c.). The title appears so often in inscriptions together with that of Augustalis, that Henzen holds that the duplarii were a division of the Augustales (Bull. dell' Inst. Rom. 1848, 57); but Sellitto points out that in some inscriptions words intervening between the two titles betoken a distinction between them, e.g. Aug (ustali) gratis creato Dupliciario.(Bull. Arch. Napol. 1857, p. 24.)

or duplicarii. Soldiers who received, on account of their good conduct, double allowance (duplicia cibaria), and perhaps in some cases double pay likewise (Varr. L. L. v. 90; Liv.ii. 59, xxiv. 47; Orelli, Inscript. No. 3535). The forms are duplicarius (Or. 3533), dupliciarius (ib. 3534), duplaris (Veget. ii. 7), duplarius (Or. 3531).