06-06-2011, 10:22 PM
Quote:I may have to stand corrected over this but was it not by the time of Claudius there were only about 60% of the Roman army Romans anyway, so I'm sure there must have been great resourses used to kit out all these new kinds of people coming into the army.
That really depends on what you define as "Roman" by 200 AD, only 30% of the Legions was actually recruited from Italy, I don't recall what the early empire's statistics were, but most legionnaires were from Italy which was considered to be the "Ideal stock"
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