- In the
records kept by well-to-families
concerned with lineage, the
contubernia of
slaves were
acknowledged along with
family births, deaths, and manumissions...
-
essentially the
equivalent of a
modern squad,
although unlike modern squads contubernia seemed to
serve no
tactical role in battle. It was
likely used to maintain...
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march contubernium-abreast (8-abreast). In the
Imperial Legion, ten
contubernia formed a centuria.
Maniple (Manipulus) – The pre-Marian sub-unit of the...
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comprised six centuries, with a
century further made up of ten
squads (
contubernia); the
exact size of the
Imperial legion,
which was
likely determined...
-
originally consisted of a
hundred soldiers;
later 80
distributed among 10
contubernia, with
support staff making up the
remainder of the 100 men. Each contubernium...
- the
Latin word for a javelin. A
century of 80 men was
divided into ten
contubernia, each of
eight men, who
shared a
single A-frame tent together. A contubernium...
- men. Each
century had its own
standard and was made up of ten
units (
contubernia) of
eight men who
shared a tent, a millstone, a mule and
cooking pot...
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junior officers, such as an optio.
Centuries were
further broken into ten
contubernia of
eight soldiers each. The mani**** were
commanded by one of
their two...
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normally a
cohabitation between two
slaves within the same household, and
contubernia were
recorded along with births, deaths, and
manumissions in
large households...
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individuals in
their households to
establish quasi-marital
unions (known as
contubernia) as a
means of
forming communal bonds among the enslaved,
these unions...
