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Fact 1: give or take a few pounds, Roman soldiers carry approximately the same weight of equipment into battle as soldiers do today.

Fact 2: Soldiers were paid partly in salt, this is where the phrase "being worth your salt" comes from.

Fact 3 : Common belief would have it that he was 1 of 100 because he was called a centurion. However a man was part of a Legion, of about 5-6000 men, the Legions were split down into centurys of about 80 men. The leader of this century was called thecenturian.

Fact 3 centurian.

Fact 4: The captured tribesmen were put to use as Auxilia, their job was to form a human shield to protect the Roman soldiers.

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