Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Ancient Warfare Answers with me, Murray, your weekly 10-minute fix of ancient warfare to take you away from whatever distractions there are from the really important stuff of ancient warfare in your everyday lives.

Today's question is from the scrubby, the SG Ruby. I read that as the

rugby for a minute there, but I read that. There's actually no rugby in there. I put the G in the

wrong place. The scrooby. The zgrubi. Anyway, so let's continue the theme. How new

imperial legions were raised. Regions were lazed.

Legions were raised. Did other legions provide cadres to train? Thanks, this groupie.

Now, this, of course, is a fascinating big picture that we have to go on a deep dive. So welcome to a deep dive. Now, of course,

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That dates this video if you're looking at it in 10 years time.

Anyway, now, this question about the raising of new legions is fascinating.

Most of the legions, and for most of the Roman Empire, late Republic,

by the end of the Roman Republic, there's 50 legions, and that soon gets

consolidated by Octavian slash Augustus down to roughly 28. It eventually gets up to 30. There's

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