Contubernium, centuria and manipulus

[Robert Vermaat]

CGL Vol. 5

Placidvs 5.54

Centurias dicimus partes exercitus in centenos milites diuisos unde et qui his presunt centuriones dicuntur ergo succenturiati sunt non qui in prima sed qui in secunda centuria sunt quasi sub prima centuria tamen structi etiam ipsi in speculis positi in bello sunt ut si primi defecerint isti quos subesse diximus laborantibus primis subueniant unde et ad insidiandum ponitur succenturiatos quasi armis dolosis instructos.

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Happily translated by Google into this perfect English for poor barbarians such as myself:

"Companies we say that the parts of an army in the hundreds, the soldiers, bands, wherefore he that is his charge of the captains of hundreds are said to be, therefore, the suprarenal, not to them that are in the first, but one who in the second century as it were, under the first century, however, built also themselves in the mirrors, if set in the war with a nature that if the first should fail men whom you are to be subject to we have said, from which the subsidiary, as it were, and to watch his opportunity is placed with the working firsts with arms full of guile, they relieve their formation."