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Patreon, legionary, Optio, and Centurion. Now, the question today is, he says, trying to find one of the many word documents, is from Mark.

Did any of the friendly client states, Thrace, Cappadocia, Mauritania, etc., try to copy Roman legions in terms of equipment, organization, tactics, etc.?

Excellent question.

And I wonder, Mark doesn't mention it, but I do wonder if that's come from many of the war games involving Roman legions where you can find imitation Roman legions cropping up in your armies. Now, in that sense, there's all sorts of complicated things going on.

Imitation, meaning did they look like Roman legionaries?

And so did they fight in the same way?

Did they have the same equipment?

Were they organized the same way?

And the evidence really isn't enough to tell us.

Of course, the idea that the Roman legionary equipment is unique to the Roman legionary's false anyway. The oval scutum is very similar to the oval shield of the Celts and the Gauls, as we saw when I talked about the Therophorei the other day, or it was probably a couple of weeks ago now. And you've also got the idea, of course, that chain mail armor came from the Celts and the Gauls as well, and the Romans adopted that.

The idea, of course, that the gladius Hispaniansis, the Spanish sword is also something that's used widely.

Of course, one of the things about the Roman legions is their ability to identify and adopt and then adapt various technologies in the Scutum, the male and the sword technology.

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