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Honesta missio
Roman Empire honorable discharge from military service / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The honesta missio was the honorable discharge from the military service in the Roman Empire. The status conveyed particular privileges (praemia militiae). Among other things, an honorably discharged legionary was paid discharge money from a treasury established by Augustus, the aerarium militare, which amounted to 12,000 sesterces for the common soldier and around 600,000 sesterces for the primus pilus[1] until the Principate of Caracalla.[2]
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