 | Alexander Adam - 1842 - 476 pagine
...completed, and the military oath administered, the troops were formed into legions.5 Each leuioi: wasdivided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two centuries.6 So that there were thirty maniples, and sixty centuries in a^legion ;7 and if there had... | |
 | William Smith, Charles Anthon - 1843 - 1142 pagine
...( Vid. MANIPULI), and of the distinctions of hastati, principes, and triarii. Each legion was then divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples,...thirty maniples and sixty centuries in a legion.* (Cohort or chart, the Greek ^dpror, originally signified an enclosure for sheep or poultry, and was... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1843 - 324 pagine
...enemy to him. 37. Centuria. ...prœfectus, etc. : The Roman army was formed into legions ; each legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two centuries. There were also 300 cavalry usually joined to each legion. These were divided into ten türmte, or... | |
 | George Bradley - 1843 - 98 pagine
...called velites ; the number when a legion was 4200 strong, 1200 men. In each legion the infantry were divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two centuries ; these were divided into ten turma of 30 men each, and each turma had three decuriones. The legion... | |
 | Sallust - 1845 - 406 pagine
...Polybius it was 4200. The subject is well discussed by Lipsius, De Militia Romana, dial. 4. Each legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three...centuries. So that there were thirty maniples and sisty centuries in a legion, and if there always had been 100 men in each century, as its name imports,... | |
 | William Smith, Charles Anthon - 1843 - 1152 pagine
...triarii. Each legion was then divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and eacli maniple into two centuries, so that there were thirty maniples and sixty centuries in a legion.* (Cokors or chon, the Greek x°PT°t> originally signified an enclosure ft sheep or poultry, and was... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro, Virgil - 1845 - 362 pagine
...eu/caípws. 462. Cnrrifu.it sese = iapyvro. Сотр. JEn. VI. 472. 463. Maniplis The Roman legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two centuries. Manipulus was so called, because a handful (manipulus) of hay, fixed on a pole, formed an ensign for... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1845 - 324 pagine
...onis, f. (lego, to choose or select,) a legion, a body of soldiers selected. The regular Roman legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two centuries, which, from its name, (centum, a hundred,) consisted of a hundred men. The regular legion was therefore... | |
 | Julius Caesar - 1846 - 538 pagine
...cohort contained, of course, 600 ; but, generally speaking, the number was below this. Each legion then was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two centuries. — Cohors Pretoria, Vtd PRETORIA. CONSUL, the official title of the two chief magistrates of the Roman... | |
 | Julius Caesar - 1848 - 450 pagine
...In the times of the Republic, each legion was divided into ten cohorts ; each cohort into t Tirée maniples ; and each maniple into two centuries. So...were thirty maniples and sixty centuries in a legion ; and if there had always been one hundred men in each century, as its name imports, the legion would... | |
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Each Roman legion was divided into ten cohorts ; each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two centuries. So that there were thirty maniples and sixty centuries in a legion. There were two centurions in each maniple, called by the same name,... 
