Seniority

[John Moxey]

Hi

I have a couple of questions I hope you can help with...

Can anyone offer any guidance on the seniority of different ranks? With a legion is fairly straight forwards, or within an auxiliary unit although cavalry uses different ranks so...

What is the order of seniority (assuming they all were awarded their rank today)?

A legion centurion
An auxiliary centurion
An urban cohort centurion
A praetorian centurion
A legion Decurion
An Auxiliary Decurion
A legion Optio as "acting centurion"
A legion Optio
An Axilliary optio as acting centurion
An auxilliary Optio
A legion supernumerary centurion
A legion primus Pilus
An Auxiliary primus Pilus


Secondly, on signing up as a new legionary, or auxilliary, what happened? How long did they train for? Do we know anything of the routine or regimen new recruits were subjected to? Did they do a general trading period with other recruits before being assigned to their tent party? When did they get their gear?

My only real insight here stops at using heavy wooden training swords to strengthen sword arms as a general sword fighting training.

Lastly, did common grunts get any training in specialist bits of gear. For example using a bow?


Any other related info would be fantastic

Cheers

John