Gaius Maesius Tertius (c. 1st century – c. 2nd century) was a Roman civil servant and officer active at the beginning of the 2nd century AD. According to a

military diploma A Roman military diploma was a document inscribed in bronze certifying that the holder was honourably discharged from the Roman armed forces and/or had received the grant of Roman citizenship from the emperor as reward for service. The diploma ...

issued on 14 October 109 found in Valentia Banasa in the Mauritania Tingitana province in year 109 AD he was ''praefectus'' (commander) of the '' ala I Hamiorum sagittariorum''. In 113 AD he was '' subpraefectus vigilum'' in Rome (the first person known serving under this office).{{CIL, 6, 221 Tertius was inscribed in the

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''Palatina''.

Hans-Georg Pflaum Hans-Georg Pflaum (3 June 1902, Berlin – 26 December 1979, Linz) was a German-born French historian. Life Pflaum, who came from a Jewish family of industrialists, at first studied law in Breslau and Heidelberg, afterwards taking a position in ...

: ''Les carrières'', Nr. 78, p. 174–175.

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