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Definition of Legionaries
1. legionary [n] - See also: legionary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legionaries
Literary usage of Legionaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Besides their arms, which the legionaries scarcely considered as an encumbrance,
... This important labour was performed by the hands of the legionaries ..."
2. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1899)
"Partially too we can discern the workings of a spirit of jealousy among the Roman
legionaries against the Teutonic comrades by whom they found themselves ..."
3. A history of the Romans under the empire by Charles Merivale (1865)
"Mutiny among the legionaries.—Slaughter of their general and dissolution of their
forces.—Triumphant expectations of a Gallo-German empire. ..."
4. A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of by Charles Merivale (1875)
"... Bc 431—The great war with Veii—Military pay first given to the legionaries—Veii
captured, Bc 396, cc 358. IT is not, however, the laws of the decemvirs, ..."
5. A History of the Law of Nations by Thomas Alfred Walker (1899)
"Ann. aw The legionaries of Julian in Germany nearly four centuries later followed
in every particular the war- practice of Germanicus, wasting the country ..."
6. The Roman Triumvirates by Charles Merivale (1887)
"From the j^an time of the exhausting wars against the Cimbri legionaries, and
the Teutones, the Roman soldier had ceased to represent the aristocracy of ..."
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