"A Roman Legion is defined as a division of from 3000 to 6000 men (including cavalry) in the Roman army. A full strength legion officially consists of 6,000 men, but typically all legions are organized at under strength and generally consist of approximately 5,300 fighting men, including officers. Non-combatants such as feild surgeons and clerks however are not included in the final count of a single fighting Legion."@en . "Roman legions"@en . . "The Roman army (Latin: exercitus Romanus) is a term that can in general be applied to the terrestrial armed forces deployed by the Romans throughout the duration of Ancient Rome, from the Roman Kingdom (to c. 500 BC) to the Roman Republic (500\u201331 BC) and the Roman Empire (31 BC \u2013 395/476 AD), and its successor the East Roman or Byzantine Empire. The military of ancient Rome, according to Titus Livius, one of the more illustrious historians of Rome over the centuries, was a key element in the rise of Rome over \u201Cabove seven hundred years\u201D[1] from a small settlement in Latium to the capital of an empire governing a wide region around the shores of the Mediterranean, or, as the Romans themselves said, \u2018\u2019mare nostrum\u2019\u2019, \u201Cour sea.\u201D The Early Roman army of the Roman Kingdom and of the early Republic (to c. 300 BC): during this period, when warfare chiefly consisted of small-scale plundering raids, it has been suggested that the Roman Army followed Etruscan or Greek models of organisation and equipment. The early Roman army was based on an annual levy. The infantry ranks were filled with the lower classes while the cavalry (equites or celeres) were left to the patricians, because the wealthier could afford horses. Moreover, the commanding authority during the regal period was the high king."@en . "Roman Legions"@en . "The Roman army (Latin: exercitus Romanus) is a term that can in general be applied to the terrestrial armed forces deployed by the Romans throughout the duration of Ancient Rome, from the Roman Kingdom (to c. 500 BC) to the Roman Republic (500\u201331 BC) and the Roman Empire (31 BC \u2013 395/476 AD), and its successor the East Roman or Byzantine Empire. The infantry ranks were filled with the lower classes while the cavalry (equites or celeres) were left to the patricians, because the wealthier could afford horses. Moreover, the commanding authority during the regal period was the high king."@en . "A Roman Legion is defined as a division of from 3000 to 6000 men (including cavalry) in the Roman army. A full strength legion officially consists of 6,000 men, but typically all legions are organized at under strength and generally consist of approximately 5,300 fighting men, including officers. Non-combatants such as feild surgeons and clerks however are not included in the final count of a single fighting Legion."@en .