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From Senia, as the most important sea port in the northwestern part of Dalmatia, one road went to Avendo and Arupium via Vratnik, after which it continued southeast into the interior of Lika, and one branch turned towards Siscia. The road was important in the Late Principate because it was overseen by beneficiarii consularis on behalf of the provincial administration: one was epigraphically confirmed in Avendo, and the other in the municipium Arupium. In Arupium, the altar was dedicated to Silvanus Silvester by Iulius Verus, a duplicarius and beneficiarius from the Legio XIIII Gemina from the Late Principate era. This is only the second known epigraphic confirmation of the belonging of the governor’s beneficiarii to the pay grade of duplicarius. Verus’ unit is one of those Danube legions that often sent their soldiers, especially beneficiarii, to serve in the governor’s office of the province of Dalmatia. To the north in Josipdol and to the east in Golubić, beneficiarii also operated in stationes, but the presence of legionary centurions and ordinary legionnaires is also confirmed epigraphically. It is likely that the war against the Quadi and Marcomanni at the beginning of the reign of Marcus Aurelius, the formation of the Praetentura Italiae et Alpium, and the establishment of the province of Liburnia in connection with it, caused the placement of smaller military garrisons at key communication points to the north. With the end of this danger and after Liburnia ceased to exist as a province, the army continued to stay at these points, probably even after the end of the 3rd century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We wished to validate a very general agent-based model we had built concerning the rise of hegemony in different domains of international relations (https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9306128). Our model focussed on the new domain of cyberspace, where the data are thin and the time series short. But with parameter changes it also spoke to the land, sea, air and space domains. So we sought validation in a time series from the land domain where the data are richer and the time series longer. We wished to compare the model’s results – the emergence, power accumulation, and behaviour of hegemons vis-à-vis the power accumulation and behaviour of the remainder of the international order – to empirically observed historical hegemonic behaviour. To this end, we built an exhaustive and novel database of the Roman Empire’s accumulation and application of power – represented by the proxy of military power in terms of force size and deployment – over the seven centuries of Rome’s undoubted hegemony. This historical record comfortably validates the main results of the model.

This article addresses a significant lacuna in Markan studies—and specifically in scholarship on Mark 5:1–13—by reading the exorcistic encounter between Jesus and Legion through the hermeneutic lens of Louis Althusser's interpellation theory. The article shows how interpellation provides a compelling way to account for the dynamics of exorcism displayed in this passage, especially in regard to the power of proper names. That is, moving beyond a superficial ascription of Jesus' exorcistic success to his ability to obtain Legion's name, this article utilizes interpellation theory in order to show why this onomastic obtainment is such a game-changer and how the process of requesting another's name effectively interpellates Legion, securing the spirit within an ideology of relative weakness vis-à-vis Jesus. Alongside this analysis of Mark 5:1–13, this article also discusses the comparative relevance of certain PGM spells (e.g., I.222–31, IV.2251–53, 2343–45, and VIII.1–63) and the enduring role of interpellation in contemporary hierarchies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Roman provenance of the Gospel according to Mark is not in doubt, and the reapplication of some concepts reserved for the Roman emperor to the person of Jesus in Mark's Gospel is well documented. The article considers that the act of proskuneo, rendered to the Roman emperor as a divine being during the time of the writing of Mark's Gospel, has been applied by Mark to serve an anti-Roman program. The passages where the Gerasene demoniac prostrates before Jesus (Mark 5:6) and where the Roman soldiers make a mock reverence to Jesus (Mark 15:19) are considered from both exegetical and historical perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Roman legions, who were responsible for the security of the regions they served, also carried out construction activities in these regions. From the second half of the 1st century AD the legions stationed to the west of the Euphrates River, which was accepted as the eastern border of the Empire, primarily built military roads and bridges over the branches of the river. According to the construction inscriptions and the finds that can be identified, there were three legion-built bridges in the region during the Imperial Period. These bridges ensured that the road network could continue without intervention. The road routes, architectural styles and construction materials of the bridges are important for understanding the military mobility and eastern border policy of the Empire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the ways in which the FX TV series Legion uses mental illness as a metaphor through which to consider the nature of reality. It suggests that, in doing so, Legion not only reproduces stereotypical representational tropes that position madness as shorthand for villainy, but it also follows in the tradition of puzzle narratives that use mental illness to tease plot twists based on the protagonist's inability to differentiate between delusion and reality. Finally, it examines the tendency in both Legion and other puzzle narratives to employ subjective narration techniques to simulate the perceptual experience of madness for viewers as a central component of the entertainment that they offer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En el presente trabajo se analizan unas excepcionales series monetales acuñadas a finales del siglo II y principios del III d.C., a nombre dos de las «emperatrices sirias» que más poder alcanzaron dentro de la dinastía Severa: Julia Domna y su sobrina Julia Mamea. Además de estudiar todo lo relativo a sus diseños y leyendas, se intentará averiguar los motivos que originaron estas series tan especiales. Abstract In the present work we analyze some exceptional monetary series minted at the end of the II century and the beginning of the III AD, in the name of two of the most powerful «Syrian empresses» of the Severan dynasty: Julia Domna and Julia Mamea. In addition to studying everything related to their designs and legends, we will try to find out the reasons that gave rise to these special series.

Las legiones romanas altoimperiales eran unidades militares con gran movilidad a las que se requería que se desplazaran rápidamente allá donde su emperador ordenara y por lo tanto algunas de ellas no tuvieron asignado un asentamiento definitivo durante mucho tiempo. Analizamos y discutimos las posibles primeras localizaciones de la Legio II Traiana Fortis, la segunda legión fuerte de Trajano, una legión que, hasta su asentamiento definitivo en Egipto, fue acuartelada en Judea. Analizando la evidencia arqueológica y epigráfica actual, concluimos en qué año exacto fue transferida a Judea y qué legiones cambiaron de localización en Egipto y Oriente Próximo durante los primeros años de mandato de Adriano

Mrozewicz Leszek, Mogontiacum: czynniki rozwoju (Mogontiacum: the development factors). The history of Mogontiacum spans the period from 17/16 BCE to the end of the fourth century CE. It was a strong military base (with two legions stationed there in the first century) and a major settlement centre, though without municipal rights. However, the demographic and economic development, as well as the superior administrative and political status enabled Mogontiacum to transform -- in socio-economic and urbanistic terms -- into a real city. This process was crowned in the latter half of the third century with the construction of the city walls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new method for the annotation of multispectral satellite images based on image segmentation is proposed in this paper. This method performs the multispectral image annotation by incorporating a modified locally excitatory globally inhibitory oscillatory network (LEGION) algorithm and cascaded support vector machine (SVM) classifier. Initially, images in the training set are represented with semantic concepts. The testing image is segmented into various image regions based on the color information. Segmented image regions are classified using cascaded SVM classifier based on the probabilities of semantic classes. Experiments are conducted on multispectral images of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India and the result validates the effectiveness of the proposed image annotation algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Статья посвящена проблеме размещения пограничных войск в позднеримской провинции Малая Армения — в источниках эти войска называли limitanei/λιμιτανέοι, но возникает вопрос, существовали ли они в действительности в позднеримской Малой Армении? Проблема состоит в том, что Notitia Dignitatum — главный источник по военной организации Малой Армении — по своим данным восходит либо ко второй половине III в. (на примере провинции Понт, непосредственно граничившей с Малой Арменией), либо в целом не позволяет определить, к какому времени относятся ее сведения. Тем не менее, целый комплекс агиографических текстов, повествующих о событиях в Малой Армении и Каппадокии на рубеже III—IV вв., не только подтверждают наличие подразделений limitanei/ λιμιτανέοι в Малой Армении, но и позволяют доказать, что эти подразделения представляли собой старые легионы эпохи Принципата (legio XV Apollinaris, legio XII Fulminatae в Малой Армении и legio I Pontica в провинции Понт), продолжавшие размещаться в этих регионах и в эпоху поздней Античности. Как ни странно, исследователи, занимавшиеся военной организацией Малой Армении (П. Бреннан, Э. Уилер), не обращались к этим агиографическим документам, ко всей их совокупности, автор же данной статьи подробно рассматривает и привлекает агиографические тексты, главным образом — «Страдание св. Евстратия и его сподвижников», что позволило ему прийти к новым выводам о военно-административной истории провинции Малая Армения в позднеримскую эпоху. / The present paper deals with the deployment of frontier troops in Late Roman province of Minor Armenia — different sources style these troops as limitanei/λιμιτανέοι, but there is a question, whether these detachments really garrisoned in Late Roman Minor Armenia? The problem is that Notitia Dignitatum, our main source on military organization of Minor Armenia, with respect to this point goes back to the second half of the III c. (especially as applied to the province of Pontus, which immediately bordered on Minor Armenia) or simply doesn’t permit to clarify, to which time its evidence are related. Nevertheless, a considerable amount of hagiographic texts, narrating about the events in Minor Armenia and Cappadocia, which occurred on the eve of the III and IV centuries, not only confirms the presence of detachments of limitanei/ λιμιτανέοι in Minor Armenia, but also proves that these units were the old legions of Principate times (that are legio XV Apollinaris, legio XII Fulminatae in Minor Armenia and legio I Pontica in the province of Pontus), which continued to be placed in these regions also during the Late Antiquity. It’s strange but the scholars who studied the military organization of Minor Armenia (that are P. Brennan and E. Wheeler), didn’t turn to these hagiographic texts, to their whole amount, but the author of the present paper considers and applies to hagiographic texts, mainly to the “Martyrdom of St. Eustratius and his companions”, that permitted him to make new conclusions on military-administrative history of province of Minor Armenia in Late Roman period.

The author publishes a stele of a veteran of legio VII Claudia pia fidelis found in Siculi. He provides reading of the inscription, onomastic analysis and interpretation in the context of other epigraphic confirmations of the legionary veterans in Salona in the 1st century and their settlement in Siculi in the period of the Emperor Claudius (41-54).

El proyecto del Ayuntamiento de Madrid que preside Manuela Carmena de retirar el nombre de la calle General Millán Astray, fundador de La legión e icono de la represión franquista, ha suscitado numerosas reacciones tanto a favor como en contra. El proyecto incluye el cambio del nombre del militar fascista por el de Avenida de la Inteligencia, en alusión a su frase tristemente célebre. “¡Viva la muerte, muera la inteligencia!” ¿Cómo han tratado los medios estas reacciones? Y, más en concreto, ¿cómo las han tratado en Twitter? O, llegando hasta el fondo de la cuestión: ¿Cómo han utilizado los usuarios los medios en la red social para expresar sus opiniones? Esto es lo que se propone estudiar este trabajo.

LEGION (Locally Excitatory, Globally Inhibitory Oscillator Network) topology has demonstrated good capabilities in scene segmentation applications. However, the implementation of LEGION algorithm requires machines with high performance to process a set of complex differential equations limiting its use in practical real-time applications. Recently, several authors have proposed alternative methods based on spiking neural networks (SNN) to create oscillatory neural networks with low computational complexity and highly feasible to be implemented on digital hardware to perform adaptive segmentation of images. Nevertheless, existing SNN with LEGION configuration focus on the membrane model leaving aside the behavior of the synapses although they play an important role in the synchronization of several segments by self-adapting their weights. In this work, we propose a SNN-LEGION configuration along with normalized weight of the synapses to self-adapt the SNN network to synchronize several segments of any size and shape at the same time. The proposed SNN-LEGION method involves a global inhibitor, which is in charge of performing the segmentation process between different objects with different sizes and shapes on time. To validate the proposal, the SNN-LEGION method is implemented on an optimized scalable neuromorphic architecture. Our preliminary results demonstrate that the proposed normalization process of the synaptic weights along with the SNN-LEGION configuration keep the capacity of the LEGION network to separate the segments on time, which can be useful in video processing applications such as vision processing systems for mobile robots, offering lower computational complexity and area consumption compared with previously reported solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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En mars 1864, un appel est lancé dans la presse belge afin de recruter quelque 2000 hommes pour la future légion belge au Mexique. Le premier contingent partira de Saint-Nazaire à destination de Veracruz à la mi-octobre. En principe, ces volontaires étaient destinés à former une garde autour de leur compatriote l’impératrice Charlotte de Belgique. Mais c’était sans compter sur l’ambition de leur commandant, le colonel Alfred Van der Smissen, incapable de se contenter d’un rôle secondaire. Sur place, les rivalités et les différends entre le maréchal Bazaine, commandant des troupes françaises, et les états-majors étrangers éclatent rapidement au grand jour. La situation militaire du Second Empire mexicain ne cesse de se détériorer, d’autant plus que l’empereur Maximilien de Habsbourg fait preuve d’une inquiétante passivité. Dans cette étude, nous nous proposons d’examiner comment les romanciers français et belges se sont fait l’écho de cette bien triste aventure.

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This article offers insights into the narrative of the Gerasene Demoniac (Luke 8:26–39) from grassroots interpreters in Owamboland, Namibia. The participants’ perspectives on the ‘Living Landscape’—contextualised against a background of Owambo ethnographic data—disrupt understandings of landscapes and spirits found in Western-centric professional biblical scholarship. This illustrates the potential of Contextual Bible Study (or variants thereof) both to bring forth original interpretive insights and to capitalise on particular cultural contexts as sites of expertise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects on the convergence of interests between the officers of a new military unit, the Legion, and political and economic interest groups, in the context of the military defeat at Annual in the summer of 1921. The particular characteristics of this infantry assault unit (combat methods and legionary mystique) moved a sector of the authoritarian right (maurismo), dazzled by the conquest of power by Fascism and the way in which it had crushed the left-wing organizations in Italy, to idealize the Legion and its commanders, Millán Astray and Franco. This unit was represented as the necessary means to bring the Moroccan campaign to a successful conclusion and to proceed with the economic exploitation of the territory. The Legion was also proffered as a model (a battle-hardened, death-worshiping unit) for the civil militias, with which they aimed to gain control of the streets and to force the government, given the passivity of the army, to become more authoritarian. | Una reflexión sobre la convergencia de intereses entre la oficialidad de una nueva unidad militar, la Legión, y grupos de intereses políticos y económicos, con el trasfondo de la derrota militar en Annual en el verano de 1921. Las características de esa unidad de infantería de choque (forma de combate y mística legionaria) conduce a un sector de la derecha autoritaria (el maurismo), deslumbrada por la conquista del poder por el fascismo y la forma en que ha aniquilado a las organizaciones de la izquierda en Italia, a idealizar a la Legión y a sus jefes, Millán Astray y Franco. Esa unidad es presentada como el modelo necesario para culminar con éxito la campaña en Marruecos y proceder a la explotación económica del territorio. También como modelo (unidad aguerrida que rinde culto a la muerte) para las milicias civiles con las que se pretende la conquista de la calle y forzar al gobierno, con la pasividad del ejército, a un cambio de régimen en sentido autoritario.

A great deal of attention has been paid by historians to the leading figures of the 1848-1849 Revolution in Transylvania, yet those from the second and third line have fallen into oblivion. Such an example is the case of Petru Bonta, the tribune from Seuşa, the county of Turda. He had completed his studies in Blaj, where he was also to be found once the revolution breaks out. His was an active role in organizing its proceedings and he also took part in the national meetings in Blaj. Following the September meetings, Bonta was named tribune of the Third Plains Legion lead by Vasile Moldova. He became actively involved in its dealings and so caught the eye of the Hungarian revolutionaries who slaughtered him in the autumn of 1848 in Ogra, as we are told by the report of the priest George Răchită. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Armed forces of the Roman state were in historiography, especially in the general public, known and perceived as a model of discipline and hierarchical order. However, during the 1,300 years of its existence, the individual units of the Roman army had rebelled. One of these riots was the one that took place after the death of the first princeps Augustus. Soldiers from the three Pannonian legions rebelled in late summer and early fall 14 AD. They have rejected the military hierarchy and establish their own control. Drusus, the son of the new princeps Tiberius,succeeded in taking advantage of superstition soldiers because lunar eclipses September 27. 14 years. n. e. to quell the rebellion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In analysing 28 largely whole inscriptions from Salona which mention persons from the Roman military system and freedmen or freedwomen dated to the time of the Principate, the author attempted to obtain the most possible data on relations between freed individuals and their masters, the features of the cognomina of freedmen/women and the status of soldiers who had freedmen/women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the angel Gabriel is viewed positively in three world religions, he has appeared as the villain in three Hollywood films over just a decade and a half: The Prophecy (1995), Constantine (2005), and Legion (2010). While these films draw on apocalyptic themes from the book of Daniel, they also play ironically on Gabriel's other biblical appearance, the Annunciation of the virginal conception in Luke. All three films feature a Gabriel who attacks rather than protects women "impregnated" by a being of apocalyptic importance. The three movies can be shown to reflect various dimensions (and sides) of the contemporary American abortion debate, each casting Gabriel polemically in the image of misguided Christians (as they see it). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Abstract: Attention is a critical mechanism for visual scene analysis. By means of attention, it is possible to break down the analysis of a complex scene to the analysis of its parts through a selection process. Empirical studies demonstrate that attentional selection is conducted on visual objects as a whole. We present a neurocomputational model of object-based selection in the framework of oscillatory correlation. By segmenting an input scene and integrating the segments with their conspicuity obtained from a saliency map, the model selects salient objects rather than salient locations. The proposed system is composed of three modules: a saliency map providing saliency values of image locations, image segmentation for breaking the input scene into a set of objects, and object selection which allows one of the objects of the scene to be selected at a time. This object selection system has been applied to real gray-level and color images and the simulation results show the effectiveness of the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]