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GEM. Gemella. - The reason certain legions were called Gemellae (or twins) is provided by the commentaries of Caesar (Bell. Civ. iii. c. 4).  Speaking of the legions which Pompey had assembled, Caesar says;

"unam (LEGIONEM) ex Sicilia veteranam, quam factam ex duabus GEMELLAM apellabat, "(ad Jobert, ii. 273.)

He called one veteran legion from Sicily, which was made from two legions, the TWIN.

Gemella, surnamed Acci, a colony of Hispania Tarraconensis, to which colonists were sent from the third and fourth legions, as coins of Augustus and Tiberius testify, on which it is called COL. GEM. ACCI. See page 3.

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