. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. y of the kind involved in modern must have been some compulsion upon the upper classesto serve as officers, for Suetonius tells of a Roman knight whowas sold into slavery because he had chopped off his sonsthumbs in order to evade military service. There had been a City Legion fighting at Actium, but the army was nowmainly recruited from Italy and the imperial provinces. Alliedprinces like Herod the Great had their own militias, but werealso liable to be asked for contributions of trained auxiliariest
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. y of the kind involved in modern must have been some compulsion upon the upper classesto serve as officers, for Suetonius tells of a Roman knight whowas sold into slavery because he had chopped off his sonsthumbs in order to evade military service. There had been a City Legion fighting at Actium, but the army was nowmainly recruited from Italy and the imperial provinces. Alliedprinces like Herod the Great had their own militias, but werealso liable to be asked for contributions of trained auxiliariesto the imperial army. From the provinces troops were demandedin proportion to their warlike activity. The Dutch horsemenwere famous, and the Batavians supplied large contributions ofcavalry. The only people in the East who were enrolled inthe legions were the Galatians, who were, of course, Gauls byancestry. Augustus himself had a bodyguard of Germanslaves. As a rule only freemen were enrolled in the legions,but at the crisis of the great Pannonian and German revolts,184.
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