Legions

He formed his men into two bodies, which he called legions, and divided each legion, as was usual, into ten cohorts, putting into each cohort as many men as he could. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (1844)

And the historical use of swords by the Roman legions is as much an indictment of joinery and wood-seasoning of that time as anything else, but also reflects that the legions were often not fighting against organized opposition with polearms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hengest and Horsa were invited, according to tradition, by the Romano-Britons themselves, after Honorius withdrew the legions from the island and left them defenceless against the Picts and Scots. ❋ Superversive (2010)

No one has yet to prove any link between the Republican party and people angry at the proposed Obamacare, but the democrats are about to start bussing in legions of sheep to make sure no disagreement is heard, and democrats can just give their sales pitch without listening to anyone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because with three legions of Roman elite soldiers (three legions is about twenty thousand men), he could easily crush any outright rebellion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His scarred battalions and his war-lions come with him also triumphant, and they bring with them the captives, in legions far as the eye can see. ' ❋ Unknown (1920)

Kniaziewicz, in Polish legions, 64, 185; in _Pan Tadeusz_, 70; at Dubienka, 76; 81; at Maciejowice, 158; prisoner of war, 158-164; 185; 186 ❋ Unknown (1907)

An earthen divan, under which the rats burrowed in legions, ran round the walls; and the ceiling was made of palm trunks, along which the said rats ran upsidedown with alarming activity from sunset till dawn. ❋ Unknown (1891)

Yes, glorious Flag! borne in triumph by heroic legions from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi; from ❋ Unknown (1865)

Instead of assuming the title of Augustus, instead of employing in his defence the troops and treasures of the East, he suffered himself to be deceived by the affected tranquillity of Constantius, who, leaving him the vain pageantry of a court, imperceptibly recalled the veteran legions from the provinces of Asia. ❋ Unknown (1206)

But maybe if Justice Scalia keeps calling legions of revered jurisprudential opponents "idiots," the media will begin to pick up on these things. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; ❋ Unknown (2008)

One thing that always amuses me about reactionary revisionists, aside from the fact that, on the whole, they have no sense of humor and rarely appreciate the finer joys of bowling or karaoke, is that the so-called legions of “citizens” championing “literary standards” have no names. ❋ Unknown (2005)

We all knew by that time that the senate was recalling the legions from the provinces. ❋ Unknown (2004)

These companies were called legions, because they were the choicest and most select of the people for fighting men. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

Besides, the men too had a reputation to make with Sulla; one of the legions was the one which had deserted Young Marius at Sacriportus, and the other had belonged to Scipio Asiagenus. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)

Given enough time, he might convince Gneiss to cast his vote with the other witlings who then would open Thorbardin™s gates to the ragtag legions of humans who were fleeing a war of their own making. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (1988)

Having strengthened his alliance with the Emperor of Russia, Napoleon recalled his legions from the banks of the Niémen, the Spree, the Elbe, and the Danube, in order to reduce Spain. ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)

Parthians was followed by a panic, against the effects of which not even the discipline of the legions was a preventive. ❋ Various (N/A)

Nor shall those legions which have quitted Marcus Antonius be called the legions of Antonius rather than of the republic; for he loses all power over his army, and all the privileges of military command, who uses that military command and that army to attack the republic. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)