- The
Camillians or
Clerics Regular,
Ministers to the Sick (Latin:
Clerci Regulari Ministeri Infirmaribus) are a
Catholic religious order founded in 1582...
- to be
elite soldiers among the legion.[better source needed]
During the
Camillan era, they
fought in a
shallow phalanx formation,
supported by
light troops...
- of the line. By the time of the
Punic wars of the 3rd
century BC, the
Camillan organisational system had been
found to be inefficient.
Under a new Polybian...
- The
structural history of the
Roman military concerns the
major transformations in the
organization and
constitution of
ancient Rome's
armed forces, "the...
- the
phalanx on the rough,
hilly ground of
central Italy. In the
early Camillan system of
organisation of the 3rd and 4th
centuries BC, men were sorted...
-
ministering to the
wounded on the battlefield. This
event was
taken by the
Camillans to
manifest divine approval of the Red
Cross of St. Camillus. Throughout...
-
descended from an
earlier class of
light infantry, leves,
dating from the
Camillan legion of the 5th
century BC, who had a very
similar role to the velites...
-
support role,
providing m**** and
reinforcing wavering areas of the line. The
Camillan system of
organisation proved inefficient, in part due to the relatively...
-
territory of Veii" and to
introduce "anti-plebeian elements" into the
Camillan narrative. The
speech does not
appear in
Polybius and may have been invented...
-
meaning a
thrusting spear.
Hastae were
carried by
early Roman legionaries (
camillan); in particular, they were
carried by and gave
their name to
those Roman...
