Lastly, the colonia at Eburacum (York) must have grown up during the second or the early third century, under the ramparts of the legionary fortress, though separated from it by the intervening river Ouse.
However insignificant the legionary was as a man, he gained importance from the great body with which he was identified: he was both the servant and the master of the State.
The legionary roused and growled at the two to be quiet.
He walks like a legionary and talks like a patrician, but doubtless he hath the spirit of an ass, or he would not have let that knave of a Greek make off with so much as a lepton.
The Roman people under Romulus and long after could afford only two acres to every legionary soldier; and in the most flourishing days of the commonwealth the allowance did not exceed four.
It never developed, like many Roman legionary fortresses, into a town, but remained military throughout.
Chester), a Roman legionaryfortress in Britain on the Dee.
The legionary cavalry, blowing their trumpets and dashing in upon the terrified Indians, slew a part of them with broadswords, and put the remainder to instant retreat.
Each division was drawn up about ten deep; a space of three feet being allowed between the files as well as the ranks, so as to give each legionary ample room for the use of his javelins, and of his sword and shield.
The Hastatus and the Princeps legionary bore a breast- plate or coat of mail, brazen greaves, and a brazen helmet, with a lofty, upright crest of scarlet or black feathers.
The Samian ware has, like the legionary tiles, been found wherever the arms of Rome were carried.
The senior officer in each class was styled decurio princeps or centurio princeps,[78] but apart from this we cannot trace any regular order of precedence with fixed titles such as is found among the legionary centurions.
The legions had naturally come off best; the most determined barbarian raid seldom took a legionary fortress, and if it did, a detachment serving with the field army would probably survive to keep the name of the corps in existence.
In his right hand he holds two long spears and in his left an oblong rectangular shield, which is not curved like the legionary scutum but flat as a board.
In addition to the troops actually stationed on the line of the wall, there were other regiments in outpost forts to the north and in the forts which guarded the three roads leading south to the legionary fortresses of Chester and York.
Our only basis for calculation is the fact that a legionary considered it promotion to be made duplicarius alae; hence the pay of an ordinary cavalryman must have been more than half that of a legionary.
Hyginus, 1, gives this as the size of a legionary contubernium, and the ‘four quaternions’ of Acts xii.
The defensive armor of the legionary soldier was a helmet of metal or leather, a shield (four feet by two and a half), greaves, and corselets of various material.
The legionary soldiers encamped next to the wall on the inside of the fortifications, thus surrounding the cavalry, the auxiliaries, the general and his staff.
Mikhail who had been following the old Legionary with parted lips and shining eyes.
Before daylight he could leave the train altogether and book as a passenger from the next station (since John strongly advised against walking into Oran by road, as that was the way a penniless Legionary might be expected to arrive).
As they struggled, Legionary Rupert set his foot heavily on the Sergeant's wrist and wrenched the bayonet from his hand.
As the maddened Legros was in the act to thrust, Legionary John Bull had struck him on the side of the head with all his strength, sending him staggering, and had leapt upon him to secure the bayonet as they went crashing to the ground.
Legionary Rupert blessed those "Breakfasts of the Legion" and the hard training which achieved and maintained the hard condition of the Legionary.
The Legionary laughed--a ringing peal which was distinctly familiar.
Legionary John Bull, involuntarily glancing from the face to the flat chest of the speaker.
For the sum of fifty francs the Jew would provide one Legionary with a satisfactory suit of clothes.
A gloomy, sardonic Legionary placed a kepi upon the crisply curling hair of Reginald Rupert.
Besides a lighter spear, the legionary soldier grasped in his right hand the formidable pilum, a ponderous javelin, whose utmost length was about six feet, and which was terminated by a massy triangular point of steel of eighteen inches.
The remaining nine cohorts consisted each of five hundred and fifty-five; and the whole body of legionary infantry amounted to six thousand one hundred men.
Footnote 45: For the legionary arms, see Lipsius de Militia Romana, l.
Now Cæsar had about him no more than three hundred horse and five thousand legionary soldiers; for the rest of his army, which had been left beyond the Alps, was to be conducted by those whom he sent for that purpose.
They were, therefore, compelled to retreat to the legionary soldiers, taking with them Publius, who was badly wounded.
To this Cato replied, that he was ready to take the legionary soldiers and horsemen whom he had brought into Libya, and carry them over to Italy, and so make Cæsar change his place and to turn him from them to himself.
When the signal for attack was going to be given on both sides, Pompeius ordered the legionary soldiers to stand with their spears presented and in close order to wait the attack of the enemy till they were within a spear's throw.
Legionary fortresses were established at Wroxeter (for a time only), Chester and Caerleon, facing the Welsh hills, and at Lincoln in the northeast.
Adiutrix, and achieved the final subjugation of Wales and the first conquest of Yorkshire, where a legionary fortress at York was substituted for that at Lincoln.
One blow of the terrible weapon of the legionary sent the oncomer sprawling in his own gore.
The tribune handed his oar to Cælius, and, deliberately wresting the weapon from the timber, flung it back with so deadly an aim that one pursuinglegionary went down, pierced through the breastplate.
And we will be down on Rome, and away from it, before a legionary shows himself at the gates!
Small service would I be to you, and little glory would I win as an officer, when the meanest legionary knows much that I may learn.
A moment more and he was running among the soldiers, calling this and that legionary by name.
The legionary was still possessed of a property qualification, but it had become relatively small.
But the strength of the Roman army lay in the heavy legionaryinfantry of citizens.
Each division was drawn up about ten deep, a space of three feet being allowed between the files as well as the ranks, so as to give each legionary ample room for the use of his javelins and of his sword and shield.
The hastatus and the princeps legionary bore a breastplate or coat of mail, brazen greaves, and a brazen helmet with a lofty upright crest of scarlet or black feathers.
Germans, in the course of which he had recovered one of the legionary eagles which Varus had lost.
Remains of Roman cuirasses are as rare as of the helmets, and for the same reason; but the general type of the armour worn by the legionary soldier is illustrated by a small statuette (No.
These are the military clubs, on the objects and constitution of which a flood of light has been thrown by the study of the inscriptions in the great legionary camps of North Africa.
Gradually soldiers were allowed to form family relations, more or less regular, until, under Septimius Severus, the legionary was permitted to live in his household like any other citizen.
Drafted from Cappadocia or Commagene, and quartered, far from his home, in a camp on the Danube or in the Black Forest, the legionary clung to the worship of his native East, and was eager to admit his comrades to fellowship in its rites.
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