Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Legio

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

LEGIO. A Roman legion; two of which constituted a consular army. It consisted of about five or six thousand (for the complement was not always the same), heavy-armed foot soldiers (legionarii) drawn from the Roman citizens; augmented by a body of auxiliaries at least equal in number, and a detachment of cavalry, three hundred strong, which was always joined with it; so that the effective force of a legion in the field is usually reckoned at ten thousand men at least. Varro. Liv. Tac. Veget.