Ninth Legion

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Centurion (film) - Cast
... Michael Fassbender as Quintus Dias, a centurion of the Ninth Legion ... an animal!" Dominic West as Titus Flavius Virilus, the general (legate) of the Ninth Legion ... Liam Cunningham as Ubriculius ("Brick"), a veteran soldier from the Ninth Legion ...
The Last Legion - Historical Notes - The Missing Ninth Legion
... The film uses the premise of the missing Ninth Legion still existing somewhere in Britain at this time, a once popular idea among British historians ... The Ninth Legion disappears from Roman records from about 120 AD, by which time, it has been suggested, it was no longer serving in Britain ... Rather, it has been thought that the Legion was destroyed in some unknown war near the Danube frontier or perhaps whilst serving on the Eastern front fighting ...

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