ABSTRACT
Army and frontier under the F lavians and Antonines Under the Flavians and Antonines the province flourished. Its towns and other settlements, its villas and the imperial mines in the province (an asset of the greatest importance) all required the protection of an army. Under the Flavian emperors, and in the first half of the second century, Noricum can hardly be said to have been in danger from enemy incursions, but even so the government thought it necessary to station troops on its northern frontiers. The exercitus Noricus, as the army of the province is called on coins of Hadrian, was still composed, as before, of auxiliary troops only, the presidial procurator being the Commander-in-Chief. His task was to keep a watch on the Norican sector of the Danube frontier and on the territory immediately beyond it, and to be in readi~ ness for any outbreak of war. Besides this, in co-operation with the army of Raetia, he had to keep open the communications between the two great northern armies of the Rhine and in Pannonia. He also had to select military personnel for secondment to the provincial administration.!
