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How were legions and centuries similar? How were they different?

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In the late republic and much of the imperial period (from about 100 BC), a legion was divided into ten cohorts, each of six (or five) centuries. ... By the third century AD, the legion was a much smaller unit of about 1,000 to 1,500 men, and there were more of them.

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