Roman Army before and after the Marius' Reforms

[JaM]

wait, this is getting more and more confusing.. were or were not Equestrian class separate from Class I? from what i read, they were separate, and on each assembly 1200 were selected to serve as Equites (300 per legion with 4 legions drafted)

If they are same class, then Class I gets bigger  = 63000+12600 = 75600..


so technically, when Polybius sais that only those with wealth greater than 10000 drachame used mail, he meant Class I. Yet that class was the biggest part of the legion, which again, cannot translate into Class I = Triarii assumption, because Triarii were actually the smallest part of the legion.