. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. d. 36. The Army; the Legion.—The unit of the militaryorganization was the century, probably containing at thistime, as the name {cenhtria) indicates, one hundred centuries were united toform the legion, which thus at thisperiod probably numbered fourthousand two hundred men, itsnormal strength. The tactical forma-tion of the legion was the old Grecianphalanx, which seems to have beenborrowed from the Dorian cities ofMagna Graecia. This legion-phalanxhad probably a front of five hundredmen, and a depth of six
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. d. 36. The Army; the Legion.—The unit of the militaryorganization was the century, probably containing at thistime, as the name {cenhtria) indicates, one hundred centuries were united toform the legion, which thus at thisperiod probably numbered fourthousand two hundred men, itsnormal strength. The tactical forma-tion of the legion was the old Grecianphalanx, which seems to have beenborrowed from the Dorian cities ofMagna Graecia. This legion-phalanxhad probably a front of five hundredmen, and a depth of six ranks. Theheavy-equipped citizens made up thefront, the light-equipped the rear,ranks. Attached to the legion, yetwithout constituting an organic partof it, was a considerable body ofcarpenters, musicians, and common workmen, made up ofnon-freeholders. There were at the period of the Servian reform fourlegions. Two, composed of the younger men, were forservice in the field ; the remaining two, made up of theolder citizens, formed a sort of home Besides the. Roman wSoldier. 1 Later the number of the body was increased so that the termcentury lost all numerical significance. 2 The first class, known as the juniores, comprised all persons between 54 ROME AS A KINGDOM. four legions there was a cavalry force of eighteen hundredmen (eighteen centuries), made up of the richest land-owners. This brought the total strength of the army upto about twenty thousand men. 37. The Comitia Centuriata. — The assembling-place ofthose liable to military service, thus organized into cen-turies and classes, was on a large plain just outside thecity walls, called the Campus Martins, or Field of meeting of these military orders was called the comitiace?tturiata, or the assembly of This body,which of course was made up of patricians and plebeians,came in the course of time to absorb the most of thepowers of the earlier patrician assembly {comitia curiatd). As the voting
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