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Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor) – defeated the Garamantes. Barbatio. Belisarius. Lucilius Bassus. Publius Ventidius Bassus. Bonifacius. Bonosus (usurper) Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus – commanded Caesar's fleet in the war against the Veneti. Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus – led the Roman legions in the conquest of western Iberia.
Gladiator. Part of the Zliten mosaic from Libya (Leptis Magna), about 2nd century AD. It shows (left to right) a thraex fighting a murmillo, a hoplomachus standing with another murmillo (who is signaling his defeat to the referee), and one of a matched pair. A gladiator ( Latin: gladiator, "swordsman", from gladius, "sword") was an armed ...
This is a list of Roman army units and bureaucrats. Accensus – Light infantry men in the armies of the early Roman Republic, made up of the poorest men of the army. Actuarius – A soldier charged with distributing pay and provisions. Adiutor – A camp or headquarters adjutant or assistant. Agrimensor – A surveyor (a type of immunes ).
These units usually numbered between 300 and 2,000 soldiers and some of them kept their original numbering schemes. The primary source for the legions of this era is the Notitia Dignitatum, a late 4th-century document containing all the civil and military offices of both halves of the Roman Empire (revised in c. 420 for the Western Empire). Legio I
Note also the following names: Drigissa in Superior Moesia and Dia-giza, slave at Rome, CIL XV 2445. Dromichaetes, Dromichaeta Name of the king of Getae It appears this is a Hellenised form : Duccidava Daughter of a Dacian soldier mentioned in a Roman military diploma issued in 127 in Mauretania Caesariensis: Duras
The Roman army ( Latin: exercitus Romanus) was the armed forces deployed by the Romans throughout the duration of Ancient Rome, from the Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC) to the Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) and the Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD), and its medieval continuation, the Eastern Roman Empire.
There were many different types of gladiatorsin ancient Rome. Some of the first gladiators had been prisoners-of-war, and so some of the earliest types of gladiators were experienced fighters; Gauls, Samnites, and Thraeces(Thracians) used their native weapons and armor. Different gladiator types specialized in specific weapons and fighting ...
The military of ancient Rome was one of largest pre-modern professional standing armies that ever existed. At its height, protecting over 7,000 kilometers of border and consisting of over 400,000 legionaries and auxiliaries, the army was the most important institution in the Roman world. According to the Roman historian Livy, the military was a ...