\paperw3990 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \fs22 During the early centuries of the Empire the Roman army was made up of about 360,000 men on <<regular service,>> well-
armed and equipped soldiers accustomed to exertions of every kind, trained for all types of combat, and inserted in a military structure that was in no way inferior to that of the most advanced modern states. An army composed chiefly of legionaries and a
uxiliary troops, capable of facing any adversary and of exercising control over an Empire whose size had no precedent in human history. \par
