THE CENSUS OF QUIRINIUS
  
( About 3-2 BC ? )
 

 
CIL III, n. 6687 ( Transl. by D. B. Saddington in ANRW, II, 26, 3, 1996, p. 2417 ).
  

 
      Q. Aemilius Secundus, the son of Quintus, of the Palatine voting constituency, decorated in the camp of the deified Augustus under P. Sulpicius Quirinius, imperial governor of Syria, prefect of the Coh. Augusta I, prefect of the Coh. II Classica : by order of Quirinius I also conducted a census of the city of Apamea (Qala'at el-Mudig). ...