Hypothetical mercenaries

[hoplite14gr]

There is a grave stele in Laconia that depicts a a man in legionary Gear and was used as a basis of an Osprey reconstruction.
I am under the impression that the Legion of the late principatum period had become a "foreign legion".

Pausanias in his 10th book mentions hoplites that repulsed a raid of a people called Kosotovokoi. They were led by a an Olympic champion from Megara. Pausanias talks of hoplites but I am inclined to think them as auxilia.

There were city states with allied status vassal cities and cities with citizen status. I don find it unlikely that in the eastern legions there were even legionaries of Greek origin.

Kind regards