What is a Roman Auxillary soilder?

Answer 1

the auxiliaries were non roman citizen soldiers. they were men who once they'd finished their 25 year term they are awarded a roman citizenship. These men were organised into cohorts of 500 men. the auxiliaries acted as support troops to roman soldiers.

Answer 2

An auxiliary in the Roman army could loosely be described as a mercenary. They were noncitizens, but after their enlistment was up they became citizens. The Roman cavalry consisted mostly of auxiliaries commanded by a Roman officer. They were also used as bowmen and slingers.

Answer 3

An axillary was a foreign soldier who signed on to the Roman army. They were usually specialty troops or cavalry. They had to serve about five years longer than the legionary and received less pay but were granted Roman citizenship upon retirement.

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An axillary was a foreign soldier who signed on to the Roman army. They were usually specialty troops or cavalry. They had to serve about five years longer than the legionary and received less pay but were granted Roman citizenship upon retirement.

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An axillary was a foreign soldier who signed on to the Roman army. They were usually specialty troops or cavalry. They had to serve about five years longer than the legionary and received less pay but were granted Roman citizenship upon retirement.

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An axillary was a foreign soldier who signed on to the Roman army. They were usually specialty troops or cavalry. They had to serve about five years longer than the legionary and received less pay but were granted Roman citizenship upon retirement.

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An axillary was a foreign soldier who signed on to the Roman army. They were usually specialty troops or cavalry. They had to serve about five years longer than the legionary and received less pay but were granted Roman citizenship upon retirement.

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An axillary was a foreign soldier who signed on to the Roman army. They were usually specialty troops or cavalry. They had to serve about five years longer than the legionary and received less pay but were granted Roman citizenship upon retirement.

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An axillary was a foreign soldier who signed on to the Roman army. They were usually specialty troops or cavalry. They had to serve about five years longer than the legionary and received less pay but were granted Roman citizenship upon retirement.

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An axillary was a foreign soldier who signed on to the Roman army. They were usually specialty troops or cavalry. They had to serve about five years longer than the legionary and received less pay but were granted Roman citizenship upon retirement.

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An axillary was a foreign soldier who signed on to the Roman army. They were usually specialty troops or cavalry. They had to serve about five years longer than the legionary and received less pay but were granted Roman citizenship upon retirement.

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Answer 4

Auxiliary soldiers (auxilia) were recruited from non Romanpeoples. They fought in auxiliary troops which supported the Roman legions. The latin word auxilia means support.

During the Roman Republic they were Italic peoples who became Roman allies. They provided 60% of the military manpower available to Rome and the bulk of the cavalry and were the key to Rome becoming the largest military power in the Mediterranean in the period of her expansion around this sea.

After the Italic peoples had obtained Roman citizenship (and were thus enlisted in the Roman legions) and the civil wars which brought down the Roman Republic, Augustus, the first Roman emperor, reconstituted the auxiliary troops. These new auxiliaries were recruited form the peregrini or provinciales (non-Romans within the Roman Empire). These troops were trained and equipped the same way as the legionaries. However, their pay was lower and their career was longer (25 years instead of 20). They were organised into all-infantry cohorts and cohorts with cavalry units attached to them (cohortes equitatae) which constituted about 40% of the auxiliaries, and cavalry units. The auxiliaries were about the same in number as the legionaries, and thus doubled the size of the Roman army.

Some auxiliary units were specialised: the Equites cataphractarii (also known as contarii and clibanarii) who were heavily armoured lancers modelled on the cavalry of the Persians and the Sarmatians and were used to counter the tactics of these two peoples; the equites Maurorum or Numidarum, a light cavalry of Mauri or Numidians from Northwest Africa who were highly skilled and very fast and manoeuvrable cavalrymen, and were used for scouting, hit-and-run harassment, ambush and pursuit; the sagittarii (arrow-men, from sagitta, arrow) who were mounted archers from Syria; and the dromedarii which were camel-mounted troops.

Like the legionaries, on discharge the auxiliaries received a certificate of discharge (honesta missio) a grant of a nummaria missio, a sizeable lump sum of money (12,000 sesterces, later 20,000) or of a plot of land to farm (agraria missio). In addition they were granted roman citizenship.

Answer 5

An auxiliary soldier was an extra added attraction, so to speak, to a Roman legion. They were generally recruited from the allies and had a specific ability. For example, cavalry was generally auxiliary, slingers and bowmen and scouts were also recruited as auxiliaries.

Answer 6

An axillary was a foreign soldier who signed on to the Roman army. They were usually specialty troops or cavalry. They had to serve about five years longer than the legionary and received less pay but were granted Roman citizenship upon retirement.

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