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This is a question again, a second question from today Tomic, 1943.

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And his comment, his question, hi, Murray.

Do we know why and when the difference between Hastati, Princopes, Triari,

cease to exist in the Republican Roman army?

Thanks. Now, you may have seen a couple of questions

ago that I said these things are all controversial and that was talking about the decline or the

demise of the hoplight, which I pinpointed to a particular battle in 222 BC. And similarly,

this is, well, this is similar in the sense that it's controversial,

but it's non-similar in the sense that what used to be the concrete date for the end of the

Hastati, Princopes, and Triari is no longer regarded as a singular date.

Now, that date originally is 107 BC during the period

of what were known as the Marian reforms. Now, the Marian reforms you might know, of course,

is when you have Marius's mules, where you've got each individual Roman legionary is a sort

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