Hi,
I don't know how it has slipped me by but until I read the
Wikipedia entry on
Trajan Pater and then the
Numiswiki entry here (reproduced from Stephenson's Dictionary) I didn't realise
his role in the First
Jewish war.
Under the future emperor
Vespasian he commanded the tenth legion,
Legio X Fretensis, during the First
Jewish–
Roman War between 67-68. In one action he beseiged the city of Japha (
sic,
Jaffa?) near Iotapa and just before the city fell he made arrangements with
Vespasian for the final
victory to be taken by
Titus!
Because of
his successes, and one suspects some shrewd moves on
his part,
Vespasian awarded
Trajan Sr. the governorship of a province, although which one is unknown, and a consulship in 70.
Regards,
Mauseus