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CENTURION (Lat. centuria)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 684 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CENTURION (Lat. centuria) , in the ancient Roman army, an officer in command of a centuria, originally a
body
  of a hundred
infantry
 , later the sixtieth
part
  of the normal
legion
 . There were therefore in the
legion
  sixty centurions, who, though theoretically subordinate to the six military tribunes, were the actual working
officers
  of the legion. For the most
part
  the centurions were promoted from the ranks: they were arranged in a complicated order of seniority; the senior
centurion
  of the legion (
primus
  pilus) was an officer of very high importance. Besides commanding the centuries of the legion, centurions were " seconded " for various kinds of
special
  service, e.g. for staff employment, the command of auxiliaries. See further ROMAN ARMY.


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