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Sagittarii (Latin, plural form of sagittarius) is the Latin term for archers. The term sagittariorum in the title of an infantry or cavalry unit indicated a specialized archer regiment. [1] Regular auxiliary units of foot and horse archers appeared in the Roman army during the early empire. [2]
Sagittarii – Archers, including horse-riding auxiliary archers recruited mainly in North Africa, Balkans, and later the Eastern Empire. Salararius – A soldier enjoying special service conditions or hired as a mercenary. Scholae – was used in the late Roman Empire to signify a unit of Imperial Guards.
Eurybotas was the toxarch (τοξάρχης), meaning captain of the archers, in the army of Alexander the Great. Following the conquest of Macedonia and of the independent Greek city-states, Cretan archers served as auxiliaries in the Roman army as reformed by Gaius Marius under the Republic, [6] and that of the Empire. Mediterranean light ...
The Roman empire in AD 125, in the time of emperor Hadrian, showing the Roman provinces and legions deployed. This article lists auxilia, non-legionary auxiliary regiments of the imperial Roman army, attested in the epigraphic record, by Roman province of deployment during the reign of emperor Hadrian (r. AD 117–138).
The Imperial Roman Army was the military land force of the Roman Empire from 27 BC to 476 AD, [1] ... Roman archers (top left) in action, positioned as normal in ...
However, the cavalry of the Late Roman army was endowed with greater numbers of specialised units, such as extra-heavy shock cavalry (cataphractii and clibanarii) and mounted archers. [3] During the later 4th century, the cavalry acquired a reputation for incompetence and cowardice for their role in three major battles.
Cohors I Hamiorum sagittariorum ("1st Cohort of Hamian Archers") was a Roman auxiliary infantry unit of archers raised near the ancient city of Hama, Syria.It was a cohors quingenaria consisting of 480 men.
From about 218 BC onwards, the archers of the Roman army of the mid-Republic were virtually all mercenaries from the island of Crete, which boasted a long specialist tradition. During the late Republic (88–30 BC) and the Augustan period, Crete was gradually eclipsed by men from other, much more populous, regions subjugated by the Romans with ...