levy-districts

Updated: May 26, 2025

Accordingly the squadrons once constituted were allowed, even under this reform, to keep their ancient names. On the whole there was one horseman to nine foot-soldiers; but in actual service the horsemen were used more sparingly. Levy-Districts

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Each of these four levy-districts had to furnish approximately the fourth part not only of the force as a whole, but of each of its military subdivisions, so that each legion and each century numbered an equal proportion of conscripts from each region, in order to merge all distinctions of a gentile and local nature in the one common levy of the community and, especially through the powerful levelling influence of the military spirit, to blend the metoeci and the burgesses into one people.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy

Accordingly the squadrons once constituted were allowed, even under this reform, to keep their ancient names. On the whole there was one horseman to nine foot-soldiers; but in actual service the horsemen were used more sparingly. Levy-Districts

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy

Each of these four levy-districts had to furnish approximately the fourth part not only of the force as a whole, but of each of its military subdivisions, so that each legion and each century numbered an equal proportion of conscripts from each region, in order to merge all distinctions of a gentile and local nature in the one common levy of the community and, especially through the powerful levelling influence of the military spirit, to blend the metoeci and the burgesses into one people.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)