Provenienza e integrazione dei militari peregrini in suolo italico fra I e III sec. d.C.: l'esempio delle flotte pretorie

The paper aims to illustrate the relationships of daily life that could be established or were not established at all, between the soldiers of the permanent castra and the civilians of those cities of Roman Italy that already stood in the immediate vicinity. In particular, the conspicuous epigraphic patrimonies of the two permanent seats of the praetorian fleets of Misenum and Classis/Ravennas, were taken into consideration. The inscriptions analyzed, dated between the II and the IV century AD, make us know the most common aspects of the daily life of the classiarii and the officers, their exchanges with the social reality of the place where they spent the long years of military service. Numerous funeral epigraphs recount the de facto marriages of the classiarii, the children of the more uxorio relationships, the family ties with parents and relatives, the relationships with fellow soldiers. Very interesting are the epigraphs of the veterani who once discharged for honesta missio decided to stay in the same town, undertaking economic activities, buying property, starting sometimes, through participation in professional or cultic collegia, political activity for their descendants, more rarely for themselves.