Hello, welcome to another episode of the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast. I'm Angus Wallace.

In this episode, we're going to be discussing volume 12, issue 5,

Rome's indispensable auxiliaries, serving up front and on the flanks.

Joining me are regulars Jasper Rotage, Lindsay Powell, Mark McCaffrey, Murray Dam and Mark DeSantis.

So, Jasper, I have a question. Let's start with you. Let's start off by defining auxiliary units. Chris,

of our patrons, sort of asks what made an auxiliary and auxiliary kit costs,

length of service, whether they sort of a levy. So let's define what we're calling auxiliary troops.

You can go very many ways, I think, for that. The easiest one is, is anybody who is in the service of the Roman

Emperor who is not a legionary guardsman or in the fleet.

I guess that well yeah not not the urban cohorts, of course, not the Vigelais.

Uh, it's their own category of, strictly officially it's for non-citizen troops, but there are

citizen, there are units of citizen auxiliaries.

Uh, but if we talk about the army, yeah, I think the easiest

thing is to say for any troops that serve the emperor outside of Italy and are not

legionaries. It's turning it upside down, but there's, but I think that's about it, because

there's so many varieties in, in how you could define an auxiliary soldier. Well, you can go

very, you know, literal meaning of it and say, well, auxilium in Latin is help. So essentially you're talking about the additional units that are actually, yeah,

helping the main body of troops.

Does this, for example, mean that, for example, the Sochi or the Federati,

who were also up to the Marius era

they're also non-Romans

but they would be considered

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