. The life of the Greeks and Romans. .521. MILITARY STORES. about 10 square feet; it had a roof-like cover (see Col. Anton.,Nos. 10 and 26), accommodating about ten men (contwbemmm).Each, centurio bad, moreover, a separate tent, and each tribimustwo for bimself and bis attendants. The camp of a legion, there-fore, consisted of about 500 tents. Poles to mark out tbe camp,standards, and tools, and, on large expeditions, stores and band-mills, were carried after tbe army. Tbe legionaries themselveshad, moreover, at least in older times, to carry saws, spades, axes,hoes, sickles, linen, a cooking
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. .521. MILITARY STORES. about 10 square feet; it had a roof-like cover (see Col. Anton.,Nos. 10 and 26), accommodating about ten men (contwbemmm).Each, centurio bad, moreover, a separate tent, and each tribimustwo for bimself and bis attendants. The camp of a legion, there-fore, consisted of about 500 tents. Poles to mark out tbe camp,standards, and tools, and, on large expeditions, stores and band-mills, were carried after tbe army. Tbe legionaries themselveshad, moreover, at least in older times, to carry saws, spades, axes,hoes, sickles, linen, a cooking apparatus, a change of clothes, and,on longer expeditions, stores for twelve days, to which list wehave to add, in ante-Cesarean times, the gabions. Tbe baggageof the foot-soldier, including arms, weighed about sixty pounds,or about as much as that of a soldier of the Prussian infantry informer years. The soldiers knapsack was unknown to the greatly eased the burden of the soldiers by the so-called. a bedFig. 522. Marian mule (muli Mariani), that is, a pole with forked ends,across which a piece of wood was laid; the victuals and dress, beingmade into a bundle {sarcina) and fastened to the crosspole, werethus conveniently shouldered, and taken off at the beginning ofthe fight. This arrangement seems to have remained unalteredin imperial times, as appears from a group of marching soldiers onthe column of Trajan (Fig. 521). To supply the men and horses with food in barren countriesmagazines containing corn Qiorrea) and hay {foenilia, palearia) wereinstituted on the line of march, places with good communicationsby road and water being chosen in preference. Stores of fueland wood for gabions, bridges, and besieging engines also werecollected. Such magazines, fortified by palisades, are shown inthe first of the series of bas-reliefs on the columns of both Trajan THE PRAL TORIANI. 577 and Antoninus (Fig. 522, a, b, c). Fig. 522, d, shows one of thefortified sentry-boxes,
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