Roman Army Drill

[Sean Manning]

I've always wondered how a Republican legion was organized and drilled, since it appears from Polybius that there was no permanent cadre to do training and organization like modern militias have. I think most of the anecdotes refer to generals training their soldiers on campaign. Maybe drill was passed off to the veterans who had been recruited?

It wouldn't surprise me if each legion had its own slightly different drill under the emperors, since the Roman army didn't have a fetish for standardization.