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----more than treble that extent. In the midst of the camp, the praetorium, or general's quarters, rose above the others; the cavalry, the infantry, and the auxiliaries occupied their respective stations; the streets were broad, and perfectly straight, and a vacant space of two hundred feet was left on all sides, between the tents and the rampart. The rampart itself was usually twelve feet high, armed with a line of strong and intricate pahsades, and defended by a ditch of twelve feet in depth as well as in breadth. This important labour was performed by the hands of the legionaries themselves ; to whom the use of the spade and the pickaxe was no less familiar than that of the sword or pilum. Active valour may often be the present of nature ; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline[1].
- ↑ For the Roman castrametation, see Polybius, 1. vi. with Lipsius de Militia Romana ; Joseph, de Bel. Jud. 1. iii. c. 5 ; Vegetius, i. 21 — 25. iii. 9 ; and Memoires de Guichardt, torn. i. c. 1.
- ↑ Cicero in Tusculan. ii. 37 j Joseph, de Bell. Jud. 1. iii. 5; Frontinus, iv. 1.
- ↑ Vegetius, i. 9. See Memoires de I'Acad^mie des Inscriptions, torn. XXV. p. 187.
- ↑ See those evolutions admirably vi^ell explained by M. Guichardt, Nouveaux Memoires, torn. i. p. 141 — 234.