TURMA

In the Roman Legion, a company of horse, of which ten formed the whole complement of the legion. According to Varro, it consisted of thirty horsemen, ten answering to each of the three original equestrian tribes, the Tatienses, Ramnenses, and Luceres. But in addition to the ten, there seem to have been two file leaders; and as the word turm a was sometimes indiscriminately used for the subdivision or third part of the full turm a 1270 ' TUSCAN ORDER. the following lines of Virgil's JEncid seem to describe the arrangement: — Tres equitam numero turnia;, temique vagantur I)uctores: puer i hi eni quemque secuti. (See M. Le Beau's 8th Di ertation on the Roman Legion, Mem. de VAc. des Jnscr. vol. xxxii.) [s. 1283]