Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D. (Editor), Frank Gardener Moore (Editor), Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. (Editor), Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D. (Editor), 8.8.14

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View: By Chapter

← Previous Next →

[14] there were customarily four legions raised of five thousand foot each, with three hundred horse to every legion. ¹

Ab urbe condita. Titus Livius (Livy). Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D. (Editor), Frank Gardener Moore (Editor), Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. (Editor), Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D. (Editor). Medford, MA. .

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities.

Current edition Perseus

History of Rome (English) (Foster, Benjamin Oliver; Moore, Frank Gardener; Sage, Evan T.; Schlesinger, Alfred C., translators. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1919-1959. (Loeb Classical Library))

Editions (3)

Ab urbe condita Perseus (Pars I-IV, Libri I-XL. Editio Stereotypica. Weissenborn, Wilhelm; Mueller, Moritz, editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1884-1911.) — 8.8.14 focus

[14] scribebantur autem quattuor fere legiones quinis milibus peditum, equitibus in singulas legiones trecenis. alterum tantum ex Latino dilectu adiciebatur, qui ea tempestate hostes erant Romanis eodemque ordine instruxerant aciem;

Ab urbe condita Perseus (Conway, Robert Seymour; Walters, Charles Flamstead; Johnson, Stephen Keymer, editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1914-1935. (Oxford Classical Texts)) — 8.8.14 focus

[14] scribebantur autem quattuor fere legiones quinis milibus peditum, equitibus in singulas legiones trecenis.

alterum tantum ex Latino dilectu adiciebatur qui ea tempestate hostes erant Romanis eodemque ¹ ordine instruxerant aciem;

Ab urbe condita Perseus (Livy in Fourteen Volumes. Foster, Benjamin Oliver; Moore, Frank Gardener; Schlesinger, Alfred C., editors. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1919-1959 (printing).) — 8.8.14 focus

[14] scribebantur autem quattuor fere legiones quinis milibus peditum, equitibus in singulas legiones trecenis.

alterum tantum ex Latino dilectu adiciebatur qui ea tempestate hostes erant Romanis eodemque ¹ ordine instruxerant aciem;

Translations (2)

History of Rome Perseus (Spillan, D.; Edmonds, Cyrus; McDevitte, William A., translators. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849-1868. (Bohn's Classical Library)) — 8.8.14 focus

[14] In general about four legions were raised, each consisting of five thousand infantry and three hundred horse.

History of Rome Perseus (Volumes 1-2. Roberts, Canon, Rev, translator. London, New York: J. M. Dent and Sons; E. P. Dutton and Co., 1912.) — 8.8.14 focus

[14] The enemy who had followed up the others as though they had defeated them, saw with dread a now and larger army rising apparently out of the earth. There were generally four legions enrolled, consisting each of 5000 men, and 300 cavalry were assigned to each legion.

Notes on the current edition

Ab Urbe Condita With An English Translation, books 1-10, 21-45, with periochae 11-20

1. Of this account of the reorganization of the army see the discussion by Professor Conway ( class . Quart. 12 (1918) 9-14) The writer concludes that

in the army which Livy was describing there were only 10 maniples of Hastati, 10 of Principes, and 10 ordines of the third division (Triarii+Rorarii+Accensi). Then the numeration becomes clear: the third division has 3 times 600, i.e. 1800; each of the first two has 1600, each maniple running to 160. This gives 1800+2(1600)=5000, Livy's total.

Titus Livius (Livy) Ab urbe condita 8.8.14

Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D. (Editor), Frank Gardener Moore (Editor), Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. (Editor), Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D. (Editor)

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Current edition Perseus

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers