They were certainly not armed with the pilum, nor drawn up in maniples; but used pikes and were employed in phalanxes.

Now as for the field legions, each consisted half of Latins and half of Romans, there being in each maniple one century of Roman and one of Latins.

The soldiers of the first line, called Hastati, consisted of youths in the bloom of manhood, who were distributed into fifteen companies, or maniples.

The first centurion of the first maniple of the Triarii stood next in rank to the tribunes, and had a seat in the military councils.

As the centurion might rise from the ranks by regular gradation through the different maniples of the Hastati, Principes, and Triarii, there was great inducement held out to the soldiers.

LXXVI.Petreius, after accomplishing this, went round every maniple, calling the soldiers by their names and entreating with tears, that they would not give up him and their absent general Pompey, as a sacrifice to the vengeance of their enemies.

Fewness N. fewness &c adj.; paucity, small number; small quantity &c 32; rarity; infrequency &c 137; handful, maniple; minority; exiguity.

Before his time the maniple had been the tactical unit.

A legion consisted of ten cohorts, each cohort containing three maniples, and each maniple two centuries.

A legion consisted of ten cohorts, each cohort containing three maniples, and each maniple two centuries.

Each maniple had its 'vexillum,' or standard.

There were two centurions for each maniple, one commanding the first and the other the second century, and taking rank according to the cohort to which they belonged, which might be from the first to the tenth.

The youngest centurion officered the second century of the third maniple of the tenth cohort.

The oldest officered the first century of the first maniple of the first cohort, and was called 'primus-pilus,' and the 'primi ordines,' or first class of centurions, consisted of the six centurions of the first cohort.

Crossing the ditch, he was followed first by the men of his own maniple, and then by the whole legion.

Caesar, the governor of the province, was now conquering Gaul, and as Cremona was the foremost provincial colony from which Caesar could recruit legionaries, the school boys must have seen many a maniple march off to the battle-fields of Belgium.

"Each legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two centuries.

"Each legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two centuries.

"Each legion was divided into ten cohorts; each cohort, into three maniples; and each maniple, into two centuries.

"Each legion was divided into ten cohorts; each cohort, into three maniples; and each maniple, into two centuries.