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maniple in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Maniple may
refer to:
Maniple (military unit), a
division of a
Roman legion Maniple (vestment), a...
- The
maniple is a
liturgical vestment used
primarily within the
Latin Rite of the
Catholic Church, and
occasionally by some Anglo-Catholic and Lutheran...
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Maniple (Latin: manipulus; lit. 'a
handful [of soldiers]') was a
tactical unit of the
Roman Republican armies,
adopted during the
Samnite Wars (343–290...
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Roman Empire, ordo
became a
synonym of
centuria (in 4 BC it was used for a
maniple). In the
political context the
centuria was the
constituent voting unit...
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During the Mid-Republic
these centuries were
grouped in
pairs to make up a
maniple, each
century consisting of 30–60 men.
After the so-called "Marian reforms"...
- the
republican era, a
legion was
divided into
three lines, each of ten
maniples. In the late
Republic and much of the
imperial period (from
about 100 BC)...
- phalanx. By the
early third century BCE, the
Roman army
would switch to the
maniple system,
which would divide the
Roman army into
three units, hastati, principes...
- on
Carthusian nuns, in the
ceremony of
their profession, a
stole and a
maniple. The nun, who may
receive the
consecration of
virgins is then also invested...
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around 5,000 men (of both
heavy and
light infantry) was
known as a legion.
Maniples were
units of 120 men each
drawn from a
single infantry class. They were...
- the
equivalent of a
modern military battalion. The
cohort replaced the
maniple. From the late
second century BC and
until the
middle of the
third century...
