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habitually enrol four legions each year
For the Romans, as I have stated before, 198 habitually enrol four legions each year, each consisting of about four thousand foot and two hundred horse; and when any unusual necessity arises, they raise the number of foot to five thousand and of the horse to three hundred.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

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