All these points he carefully observed, clad in a soldier's vest, the centurions whom he took with him being also in the attire of common soldiers, lest the enemy might notice the general going the round.
Lucius Virginius, the girl's father, held an honourable rank among the centurions at Algidum, a man of exemplary good conduct both at home and in the service.
Then summoning the centurions to him, he said, "What ignorance of war and indolence is that?
The Roman legions, under arms, by concert surrounded them; a charge had been given to the centurions to execute their orders without delay.
To the levy held by the consuls were added the old centurions well versed in war, and the number of those lost in the late battle was made up.
In the battle also he fought with the courage of a lion; two centurions fell by his hand; wounded and on his knees he still wielded his spear against the advancing foes.
The centurions seem to have been in the habit of placing a common stone, inscribed with the name of their century--company or troop, in that section of the Wall which they had built.
I would appoinete to everie battaile, or bande of men, a Conestable, fower Centurionsand fouretic peticapitaines, and moreover a hedde to the ordinarie Veliti.
He in his months[59] of command disbanded the legion, after obliging the centurions to swear, that they would carry the money in their hands to the treasury, and deliver it to the quaestors.
Three thousand foot soldiers received each fifty acres, centurions a hundred, horsemen a hundred and forty.
The tribunes, praefects, and centurions hastened to the general's quarters, and their soldiers to their several tents.
Licinius enlisted even veteran centurions and soldiers; and many of them volunteered, as they saw that those men who had served in the former Macedonian war, or in Asia, had become rich.
A great many centurions also, of both the armies, received gratuities, especially those who were in the centre.
The following remarkable concession was made to the service in Macedon; the consul was authorized to enlist at his option veteran centurions and soldiers, as old as fifty years.
The tribunes and centurions were instructed how to act.
Centurions retiring from active service became apostles of the movement in the places where they settled.
His old comrades, the centurions of the Second Legion (Traj.
A veteran, often of humble birth, who had risen to the first place among the sixty centurions of a legion, was, on his discharge with a good pension, sometimes raised to equestrian rank.
Here some one of the rank brood of centurions may say, "I have philosophy enough to satisfy me.
These centurions considered that bodily strength was the only necessary qualification for a soldier, and that consequently all cultivation, both of mind and body, was worse than superfluous.
O nicely do Centurions sift the cause, When buff-and-belt-men violate the laws!
Would-be centurions doubtless bribed him to influence the soldiers in their favour.
Thither the centurions and soldiers flocked to sell their souls.
Alfenus Varus, the camp-prefect, then hit upon the plan of forbidding the centurions to go the rounds or to have the bugle sounded to summon the men to their duties.
He also sent some centurions ahead to gain the sympathies of the Moors for Vitellius.
It is necessary for the maintenance of strict discipline and of the general's authority that even his tribunes and centurions should often obey blindly.
The tribunes and centurions each flinging away the insignia of his rank,[181] crowded round him begging for a safe discharge.
When the excitement subsided, their fears returned, and they sent 37 letters round by centurions to all the Gallic communities, asking for reinforcements and money for the soldiers' pay.
Tribunes andcenturions deserted daily, but not the common soldiers, who had grown stubbornly faithful to Vitellius.
He allowed his men to appoint centurions themselves in place of those who had fallen, and thus gave them a taste for insubordination; for their choice fell on the most turbulent spirits.
To this came Mucianus with all his officers and the most distinguished of his centurions and soldiers, besides the elite of the Jewish army in full uniform.
In Raetia and the Gallic provinces some centurions and men carrying letters and edicts from Vespasian were taken prisoners and sent to Vitellius, who had them executed.
There were no tribunes or centurions to encourage them: each man followed his own lead, and the rascals found their chief incentive in the consternation of the loyal.
The tribunes and centurions mingled with the men, and every one talked with admiration of Spurinna's foresight in selecting a powerful and wealthy colony as a strong base for their operations.
The tribunes and centurions felt themselves in an ambiguous position, seeing the better generals sacrificed and the worst in command.
Covered with wounds, they abandoned the place, and led by their centurions and tribunes, they took refuge as quickly as they could in the high mountains near the camp.
Caesar lost in this battle but two hundred soldiers, but nearly thirty of the bravest centurions were killed therein.
Some of the centurions ventured to interfere and endeavour to put down the tumult.
These again administered it to the centurions, and the centurions swore in great batches of the soldiers.
He consorted withcenturions and tax-gatherers, and advised the Jews to render unto Roman Caesar the things which were his: which meant, chiefly, the tribute.
These must be referred only to the ex-consul who is governor, except in regard to the centurions who are on the lists and to the foremost private individuals in every place.
Next the centurions took torches, conformably to a decree of the senate, and kindled the fire from beneath.
You should be the judge, therefore in these instances, and also when knights are concerned and properly enrolled centurions and the foremost private citizens, if the trial involves death or disenfranchisement.
But in the case of such as were originally centurions there is nothing to prevent the most distinguished of them from being advanced to a better class.
And when a man who belonged to the centurions wished to lodge information against some one, he forbade that any person who had served in the army should do so, although he allowed the privilege to knights and senators.
But the representatives of the centurions understood him to mean their faces, and much to the amusement of the audience all reverently bowed their heads with absurd unanimity.
In the scene of the Roman ladies' entry in procession, to solicit the return to Rome of Coriolanus, the stage was filled with tribunes and centurions of the Volscian army, bearing fasces, their ensigns of authority.
When the two centurions are both on the field, the first elected commands the right of the maniple, the second the left: if both are not there, the one who is commands the whole.
When the army on the march is approaching the place of encampment, a Tribune, and those of the centurions who have been from time to time selected for that duty, are sent forward to survey the place of encampment.
At daybreak the officers of the cavalry and the centurions muster at the tents of the Tribunes, while the Tribunes go to that of the Consul.
The Principes, Hastati, and Triarii, each elect ten centurions according to merit, and then a second ten each.
At one table a couple of centurions sat playing dice with the tesserae, and shouting the names of half a dozen gods and goddesses, as their luck fluctuated.
Brundusium to meet the legions, and then murdered all the centurions in them who were well affected to the republic?
At Brundusium he massacred the chosen centurions of the Martial legion in the lap of his wife, who was not only most avaricious but also most cruel.
The centurions were the real leaders of the men in battle.
Upon this, the centurions coming up to Sulla, begged him to defer the battle, and pointed out to him that the soldiers were exhausted by fatigue and were lying on the ground with their shields under them.
He annulled the wills of all who had been centurions of the first rank, as testimonies of their base ingratitude, if from the beginning of Tiberius's reign they had not left either that prince or himself their heir.
If we take the various centurions to whom he was intrusted, we may be sure that St. Paul must have omitted no opportunity of leading them to Christ.
A Jew uninfluenced by supernatural grace and unguided by Divine inspiration would never have drawn such pictures of Roman centurions as the New Testament has handed down to us.
And when the commanders of the army, and the tribunes and centurions were come to Moses, they said: 31:49.
But Joiada commanded the centurions that were over the army, and said to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and whosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword.
And Moses being angry with the chief officers of the army, the tribunes, and the centurions that were come from the battle, 31:15.
Lucius Verginius, the girl's father, held an honourable rank among the centurionsat Algidum, a man who was a pattern of uprightness both at home and in the service.
The Roman forces, under arms, according to previous arrangement, surrounded them; the centurions had been charged to execute their orders without delay.
Quintus understood it to mean kindly sympathy and due considerateness, the Flamen took it for horror and disapproval, the tribunes and centurions attributed it to military severity and discipline.
Centurions of the guard, do your duty, as I do mine.
No one stirred; neither of the centurions ventured to obey the Flamen's orders.
Tacitus adds another cause, the insupportable tyranny and avarice of the centurions and soldiers.
Accordingly, he assembled the centurions and tribunes that were under his command, and persuaded them to go over to Antonius, and this by diminishing the reputation of Vitellius, and by exaggerating the power of Vespasian.
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