The ''evocati augusti'' were soldiers of the

Praetorian Guard The Praetorian Guard (Latin language, Latin: ''cohortes praetoriae'') was the imperial guard of the Imperial Roman army that served various roles for the Roman emperor including being a bodyguard unit, counterintelligence, crowd control and ga ...

who had obtained an

honorable discharge A military discharge is given when a member of the armed forces is released from their obligation to serve. Each country's military has different types of discharge. They are generally based on whether the persons completed their training and the ...

after serving for their time and chose to re-enlist.

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Due to being '' evocati'', soldiers who had re-enlisted after serving their 16 years, of the Praetorian Guard, they were the only ''evocati'' allowed to use the adjective of "imperial" (''augusti''). Unlike the regular ''evocati'', it appears that ''evocati augusti'' were hand-picked by the Emperor, rather than it being open for all. Many ''evocati augusti'' went on to be

centurion In the Roman army during classical antiquity, a centurion (; , . ; , or ), was a commander, nominally of a century (), a military unit originally consisting of 100 legionaries. The size of the century changed over time; from the 1st century BC ...

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