Note 169 — Chapter XI · JUDAEA AND THE JEWS.
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
According to Josephus (Arch. xx. 8, 7, more exact than Bell. Jud. ii. 13, 7) the greatest part of the Roman troops in Palestine consisted of Caesareans and Sebastenes. The ala Sebastenorum fought in the Jewish war under Vespasian (Josephus, Bell. Jud. ii. 12, 5). Comp. Eph. epigr. v. 194. There are no alae and cohortes Iudaeorum.