Hi everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Ancient Warfare Answers. This is episode 148. I'm Murray Daab,

the assistant editor of Ancient Warfare, and with me is Jasper Oortage, the editor of the magazine.

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magazine as well now today's question is what was the daily life of the Legion like lots of

L's in that Christian?

Yes, but?

Well, Murray, there was a lot to do.

There was really a lot to do.

I mean, you know, I think there's some academics who've tried to calculate

how many Roman soldiers ever got to go on a campaign.

The problem is, of course, we don't know how many small campaigns they went on.

But the big wars, if you spread them out or if you put down in a list and see which legions

would have been involved in which weren't, then there would have been a lot of Roman soldiers

who never got to go on a big campaign and a big battle, but spent their times in or near camp doing lots of stuff.

And there's actually, there's quite a lot of sources for this.

The most important one, of course, is a lot of training.

We had a nice article by Philip Matisak in the Corps, the Legion special, I think.

There's a nice quote from Vagedeus who describes what they're supposed to do.

And I've got it here.

And he says, this is, of course, from the Re military.

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