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As their name implies, the equites were required to serve up to 10 years of service in the cavalry between the ages of 17 and 46. [12] in the Polybian legion.Equites originally provided a legion's entire cavalry contingent, [12] although from an early stage, when equites numbers had become insufficient, large numbers of young men from the First Class of commoners were regularly volunteering ...
Panel from Trajan's Column, Rome. Equites cataphractarii, or simply cataphractarii, were the most heavily armoured type of Roman cavalry in the Imperial Roman army and Late Roman army. The term derives from a Greek word, κατάφρακτος kataphraktos, meaning "covered over" or "completely covered" (see Cataphract).
Equites (cavalry): the cavalry was originally the most prestigious unit, where wealthy young Roman men displayed their skill and prowess, laying the foundation for an eventual political career. Cavalry equipment was purchased by each of the cavalrymen and consisted of a round shield, helmet, body armour, sword and one or more lances.
The equites (/ ˈɛkwɪtiːz /; lit.'horse' or 'cavalrymen', though sometimes referred to as " knights " in English) constituted the second of the property-based classes of ancient Rome, ranking below the senatorial class. A member of the equestrian order was known as an eques (Latin: [ˈɛ.kʷɛs]).
t. e. 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 ...
The early Roman armywas deployed by ancient Romeduring its Regal Eraand into the early Republicaround 300 BC, when the so-called "Polybian" or manipular legion was introduced. Until c. 550 BC, there was probably no "national" Roman army, but a series of clan-based war-bands, which only coalesced into a united force in periods of serious ...
154.000. 377.728. In the time of Emperor Septimius Severus, the Roman army reached around 500,000 total individuals, with 33 legions (182,000 legionaries [ 16 ]) and more than 400 auxiliary units (around 250,000 auxiliaries [ 17 ] of which around 75,000 served as cavalry). In the course of the Crisis of the third century, the legions reached 36 ...
The Roman army of the late Republic refers to the armed forces deployed by the late Roman Republic, from the beginning of the first century BC until the establishment of the Imperial Roman army by Augustus in 30 BC. Shaped by major social, political, and economic change, the late Republic saw the transition from the Roman army of the mid ...