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The Roman army was a set of military forces employed by the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and later Roman Empire as part of the Roman military. The size of the army in the late Roman Empire was about 128,000 - 179,200 men.
A full strength legion was officially made up of 6,000 men, but typically all legions were organized at under strength (due to previous battles and poor funding) and generally consisted of approximately 5,200 fighting men including officers. It is difficult to determine whether non-combatants like field surgeons and clerks were included in the 5,200 or helped bring the total number of men up to the official 6,000.
The basic structure of the army is as follows:
Contubernium: (tent group) consisted of 8 men. Soldiers of a contubernium shared a tent, and were rewarded or punished together. If one member of the contubernium acted dishonorably in battle, that contubernium would suffer decimation, whereby the group would be required to “draw......

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