: Those number for the Legions of the Romans never had any
: rhyme or reason that we could decipher to this day.
: They are based on some order that we can't figure out.
: They often and always seemed to change for no
: decernable reason.
: Some believe the numbers relate to the importance of a
: Legion in an army, but then why did Caesar always have
: Legio X? That always being the most important Legion
: in a Caesarian army, his veterans from Spain
: originally, that number should have gone up or down at
: some point with the vast armies he commanded.
: We don't know well enough how the Roman or Provincial
: armies worked to make assumtions on them.
I am not by any means saying that we know everything about the Roman legions, merely that each legion tended to be about 5,000 strong (each consisting of 10 5-century cohorts, including a double-sized Prima Cohors, but tented to be around 5000 rather than 5500 in practice due to battle casualties), and that the fact that there is a tenth legion suggests that there must be, or at least must at one time have been (vast scale massacres being pretty common in Balor's time. Similarly it is believed by some that a legion whose eagle was lost would be unable to be reformed.), legions 1-9.
That's all!
Martel.
