LEGION

in ancient Rome a body of } | troops, numbering from ypc at various times. At first it solely | of Noman citizens, and was divided into |, maniples of 60 foot soldiers with two cen-. | tarions end a standard-bearer, the omen || men in battle forming the front th >| the veterans at the back, In the frst -lcentury 3B.0,, foreign auxiliaries wore | udmitted and the legion became a sel i- |;contained unlt resembling an army corps, '| [s. 195]