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L0107600 (lē′jən)n.1. The major unit of the Roman army consisting of 3,000 to 6,000 infantry troops and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.2. A large military unit trained for combat; an army.3. A large number; a multitude. See Synonyms at multitude.4. often Legion A national organization of former members of the armed forces.adj. Constituting a large number; multitudinous: Her admirers were legion. His mistakes were legion.

[Middle English legioun, from Old French legion, from Latin legiō, legiōn-, from legere, to gather; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]

legion

(ˈliːdʒən) n1. (Military) a military unit of the ancient Roman army made up of infantry with supporting cavalry, numbering some three to six thousand men2. (Military) any large military force: the French Foreign Legion. 3. (Military) (usually capital) an association of ex-servicemen: the British Legion. 4. (often plural) any very large number, esp of peopleadj (usually postpositive) very large or numerous[C13: from Old French, from Latin legio, from legere to choose]

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n. 1. the largest unit of the Roman army, comprising at different periods from about 3000 to 6000 foot soldiers, with a much smaller complement of cavalry. 2. a military or semimilitary unit. 3. the Legion. a. American Legion. b. Foreign Legion. 4. any large group of armed men. 5. any great number of persons or things; multitude; throng. adj. 6. very great in number: The holy man's followers were legion. [1175–1225; Middle English legi(o)un (< Old French) < Latin legiō=leg(ere) to gather, choose, read + -iō -ion]

Legion

a multitude; a great number; a unit of Roman troops; a host of armed men.Examples: legion of angels, 1380; of appetites and passions, 1751; of devils; of horrid hell, 1605; of knights, 1400; of reproaches, 1634; of Rome, 1387; of troops; of whelps, 1824.

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A Roman military unit, originally a citizen army, later comprising 4000 to 6000 heavy infantry soldiers with cavalry support.

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Noun	1.	legion - archaic terms for army hostRoman Legion - a division of from 3000 to 6000 men (including cavalry) in the Roman armySabaoth - (plural) hosts or armies; used in the book of Romans in the New Testament; "Lord of Sabaoth"army, ground forces, regular army - a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state
	2.	legion - association of ex-servicemen; "the American Legion"association - a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association"
	3.	legion - a large military unit; "the French Foreign Legion"military force, military group, military unit, force - a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"foreign legion - a military unit composed of foreign volunteers who serve the statelegionary, legionnaire - a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion)
	4.	legion - a vast multitudehorde, hostconcourse, throng, multitude - a large gathering of people
Adj.	1.	legion - amounting to a large indefinite number; "numerous times"; "the family was numerous"; "Palomar's fans are legion"numerousmany - a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number; "many temptations"; "the temptations are many"; "a good many"; "a great many"; "many directions"; "take as many apples as you like"; "too many clouds to see"; "never saw so many people"

legion

noun1. army, company, force, division, troop, brigade The last of the Roman legions left Britain in AD 410.2. multitude, host, mass, drove, number, horde, myriad, throng His sense of humour won him a legion of friends.adjective1. very many, numerous, countless, myriad, numberless, multitudinous Books on this subject are legion.

legion

nounA very large number of things grouped together:army, cloud, crowd, drove, flock, horde, host, mass, mob, multitude, ruck, score (used in plural), swarm, throng.adjectiveAmounting to or consisting of a large, indefinite number:many, multitudinous, myriad, numerous.Idiom: quite a few.

Translations

古罗马军团大批

legion

(ˈliːdʒən) noun1. in ancient Rome, a body of from three to six thousand soldiers. 古罗马军团2. a great many or a very large number. 大批

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large unit of the Roman army. It came into prominence c.400 B.C. It originally consisted of 3,000 to 4,000 men drawn into eight ranks: the first six ranks, called hoplites, were heavily armed, while the last two, called velites, were only lightly armed. Marcus Furius Camillus is traditionally regarded as the great organizer of the legion. Under Camillus the hoplites were divided into three groups: the hastati (youngest men), the principes, and the triarii (oldest). Within the legion was the cohort, consisting of one maniple of each of the three groups plus 120 velites and a cavalry unit about 30 strong. A legion was composed of 10 cohorts and comprised about 5,000 men. In Caesar's time each legion had a commander who was responsible to the Senate, 6 tribunes, a legate, a prefect, and some 60 centurions. Training was hard, with much difficult drilling to prepare the men especially in shock tactics and for rapid marches. The standard weapons were the spear (pilum) and (after Scipio Africanus Major conquered Spain) the short thrusting sword (gladius). The characteristic emblems of the legions were eagles inscribed SPQR [Senatus Populusque Romanus—the Senate and the people of Rome], and they carried the eagles in triumph over the far reaches of the empire for hundreds of years. Upon the legions rested to a large extent the glory of Rome. They were primarily heavy infantry and were vulnerable to quickly moving cavalry and archers (e.g., the defeat of Marcus Lucinius Crassus at Carrhae) and to guerrilla fighters (e.g., the famous defeat of Varus by the Germans). With the Germanic invasions the legion proved unable to match the barbarian horsemen, rendering it obsolete.

Bibliography

See G. Webster, The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries (1969).

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(pop culture)In the Bible, spirits possessing a human being declare, “My name is Legion, for I am many.” Writer Chris Claremont gave the name Legion to the mutant David Charles Haller, whose psyche had been shattered into multiple personalities. Claremont introduced Legion in Marvel's The New Mutants #26 (1985), in which artist Bill Sienkiewicz depicted him as a gangly youth with a tall shock of black hair. Legion was not a true villain, but he proved to be a menace to the entire world. Legion was the illegitimate son of Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men, and his former lover Gabrielle Haller. As a small child, David had first used his psionic powers to kill terrorists who had murdered his godfather; the traumatic experience turned David autistic and fragmented his mind into multiple personalities, each of which controlled a different psionic power. When David was a teenager, unable to control his powers, he absorbed the minds of several of Xavier's associates into his own. To rescue them, Xavier and his student Danielle Moonstar projected their astral selves into his mind, which Sienkiewicz depicted as a surreal dreamscape of a war-torn city. There they encountered two of David's personalities, Jack Wayne, who wielded telekinesis, and Cyndi, a pyrokinetic, as well as the terrorist Jemail Karami, whose psyche David had absorbed into his own. Moonstar and Karami cured David's autism and returned the other psyches that he had absorbed to their physical bodies. David was then happily united with his father. Later, Legion used his powers to go back in time and kill Magneto before he became Xavier's arch-foe. Instead Legion inadvertently killed Xavier, thereby creating the divergent timeline known as the “Age of Apocalypse,” in which the evil mutant Apocalypse conquered America. Another X-Men member, Bishop, changed history yet again: this time Xavier survived, and the original timeline was restored, but Legion perished instead.

Legion

the basic organizational unit of the army of ancient Rome.

Originally the entire Roman host was called a legion, which was a slaveowners’ militia numbering about 3,000 infantrymen and 300 cavalrymen from among the propertied citizens; they assembled only in wartime and for military training. In the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. the number of legions was increased from two to four and more. In the early fourth century B.C. a small salary was established for the soldiers. A legion was composed of 3,000 men in the heavy infantry (principes, hastati, and triarii), 1,200 men in the light infantry (velites), and 300 cavalrymen. The different categories were recruited from among different propertied classes of the Roman citizenry and had different armament. The heavy infantry was divided into 30 tactical subunits, called maniples (from 60 to 120 soldiers each, forming two centuries), to which velites were attached. A legion was headed in the republican period by a tribune and in the imperial period by a legate.

In the late second century B.C., Marius abolished the difference in armament of the heavy infantry and the recruitment of different categories of soldiers and changed the organization of the legion by combining every three maniples into one cohort. As a consquence of the ruin of the free peasantry, obligatory military service was abolished, an increased salary was established for the soldiers, and the Roman Army became a professional mercenary army. The number of legions reached 75 under Emperor Augustus; by the end of his reign it was reduced to 25, but the size of the legion was increased to 7,000 men. Each legion was given a number and its own name and had a “banner”—a silver eagle on a pole. When the Roman Empire was divided in the late fourth century A.D., the Eastern Empire had 70 legions and the Western Empire 63.

From the 16th to 19th centuries the term “legion” was applied to various military units in France, Great Britain, Germany, and Russia. The Polish legions were particularly well known.

Legion

man controlled by devils; exorcised by Jesus. [N.T.: Mark 5:9; Luke 8:30]See: Possession

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noun army

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noun a vast multitude

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