auxilia
[Ge]Latin name for the units comprising auxiliaries or non‐citizens in the Roman army, usually 500 or 100 strong.
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Henry Michael Denne Parker, George Ronald Watson, and Jonathan C. N. Coulston
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
In the early Roman republic the infantry provided by the allies were organized in separate cohortes of varying strength, each under a Roman or native ...
legion
A division of 3,000–6,000 men, including a complement of cavalry, in the ancient Roman army.Legion is also used to mean great in number, many, as in their name is legion. This usage dates from the ...
manipulus
A tactical unit of a legion; its adoption in the 4th century bc was associated with the introduction of the throwing spear (pīlum) which required a more open and manœuvrable formation. Legionaries ...
numeri
In a military context was simply a term for bodies of soldiers; consequently numerus was often applied to a formation lacking a formal title, like frumentarii (grain-collecting agents) or equites ...
Propertius
Roman elegiac poet, between 54 and 47 bc, at Asisium, where his family were local notables. His father died early, and the family property was diminished by Octavian's confiscations of 41–40 bc (see ...
Raetia
A Roman Alpine province (see Alps), including Tyrol and parts of Bavaria and Switzerland. Though small, Raetia was important because it blocked potential invasion-routes into Italy.Immediately after ...
tribūnī mīlitum
The six most senior officers within a legion, of whom at least five years' military experience was expected. They were equestrians, though some were the sons of senators, and occasionally senior men ...
Vindolanda tablets
During the 1970s and 1980s several hundred wooden writing‐tablets were discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda behind Hadrian's Wall (see wall of hadrian); a further 400 turned up in 1993. Of the ...
war, art of, Roman
The earliest Roman battle‐order was probably the spear‐armed hoplite phalanx, a single, close‐order infantry formation. In the 4th cent. bc this was replaced by the more flexible manipular ...
