What is "legions"

Usage examples of "legions".

He had called his legates together the moment he came ashore, which meant he wanted the eight legions at present encamped at Portus Itius shifted to their permanent winter quarters immediately.

Caesar led four legions into the lands of the Nervii to finish that tribe as a power.

Left behind with the Seventh, Fabius had already stripped the defenses of a camp big enough to contain eight legions and re-erected them around a camp which could be comfortably held by one legion.

Then Caesar himself had turned up with four legions in light marching order, moving as always faster than any Gaul could credit.

Forum Romanum, with Ahenobarbus having an apoplectic fit on the Senate steps and Servius aghast on the rostra, where the actors had fled to huddle like barbarian women when they know that the legions are going to cut them down.

Spread the legions out for the winter and offer to the Gods for a good harvest next year.

Caesar had led a few cohorts more than three legions against the Morini to pave his way for the expedition he planned to Britannia.

Gaul was in revolt, that other legions had been attacked and defeated, that even if the messages had gotten through, no one was alive to answer?

Mosa with a small escort of cavalry, leaving his legates and legions to find their own way home.

Caesar appeared leading six legions, the Senones crumbled, capitulating without a fight.

They also sent frantic warnings to the Carnutes, terrified at the promptness of those four new legions, their businesslike air, their glittering armor, their latest-model artillery.

Here he sent the baggage train and two legions to Labienus on the Mosa.

Caesar and his five legions arrived, he had fought the Treveri and won a great victory.

Treveri these days, and he was all set to attack when the two extra legions appeared.

For eight days the legions labored, driving piles into the riverbed, setting up the pylons to take the roadway, cushioning them from the swift and pounding current with huge, angled buttresses on the upstream side to divide the waters and take their force off the bridge itself.