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then just drop a line to editor at ancient-warfare.com. Hello, everyone. We're back with another

podcast for Ancient Warfare Magazine. This time we're discussing the core of the Legion, the ancient Roman Canturia,

the basic makeup of the Legionary Army.

As usual, I'm joined tonight by Murray Dom, Lindsay Powell, and Michael Taylor.

It's an extremely broad subject, and I think we managed to touch upon quite a few aspects

in this special.

If I just look at the contents page here, we got Hadrian's speech to the army.

We got something a bit actually on the conturionas, but I'm sure we'll talk more about them

later.

We got something about training, about about administration logistics and of course we have a

few articles about reconstructing the look of the legionary what he wore his

equipment his armor but there's so many aspects we haven't discussed. And where shall we start?

Oh, wow.

It's not really an old chestnut, but reenactors generally tend to assume that the contuburnium is a,

it's standard practice to translate it as squad.

And that there's therefore a squad leader.

And of course, this is because Vigarius, our old friend,

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