Caius Largennius

Caius Largennius (died c. AD 50) was a legionary of the Legio II Augusta.

[1][2] His funerary stele, discovered in 1878 in the Strasbourg district of Koenigshoffen, has been much studied and is well documented.

[5] The dimensions have been given as: or, more recently, as: According to an Italian expert, col. Vittorio Lino Biondi, the "costly" design of the stele and the fact that Largennius is represented only with light armament indicate that he was not a "first line soldier" but a runner, whose importance and reliability must have been considerable.

[7] Largennius is indeed depicted only with a gladius (sword) and a pugio (dagger), and his left hand is holding a parchment roll.

[11][12] Another replica was unveiled on 24 March 2017 in Lucca, where the "return of the first Lucchese in the world" (Il primo Lucchese nel mondo torna a casa) was greeted with an official ceremony and a public celebration on Piazza San Michele [it].