The phrase cohors praetoria or cohors amicorum was sometimes used, especially during the Roman republic, to denote the suite of the governor of a province; hence developed the Praetorian cohorts which formed the emperor's bodyguard.
There is a parody on this piece of Catullus by the celebrated Huet, Bishop of Avranches-- "Bocharti comites cohors inanis.
In a cohors quingenaria with only 6 commissioned officers and 19 principales (the imaginifer cohortis and the signifer, optio, and tesserarius of each century) the chances of promotion would be less.
The garrisons were: at Netherby, the Cohors I Aelia Hispanorum M.
A cohors IV Cypria is mentioned on the Dacian diploma of 110 (xxxvii), and a cohors Cypria appears in the Crimea.
It is thus borne by the Cohors II Hispanorum scutata and the Cohors I Lusitanorum.
Cohors XXV, but it is probable that the final stroke is omitted, and that Cohors XXVI was meant.
Mucius Hegetor medicus of the Cohors XXXII Voluntariorum in Pannonia, iii.
The forts on the North British frontier range in area from 2½ to 5½ acres, the largest (Amboglanna) being designed to hold a cohors miliaria peditata.
A detachment of the Cohors I Celtiberorum in Lusitania is under the charge of a centurion of the Cohors I Gallica, a beneficiarius of the procurator, an imaginifer of Legio VII Gemina, and a tesserarius of the Cohors I Celtiberorum.
But the whole fort is only just 3 acres, and one would expect a smaller garrison; when excavations have advanced, we may perhaps find that the garrison was really a cohors quingenaria with six barracks, as at Gellygaer.
I find no sign of any mention of the Cohors I Vardullorum, which garrisoned Bremenium, though it or its commander might naturally be concerned in putting up such an altar.
It is important, also, as proving the residence here of the 'prima cohors Hispanorum.
The station of ÆSICA, according to the Notitia, was about the year 430, garrisoned by the cohors prima Astorum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cohors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
