LEGIO, a corps of soldiers in the Roman army, the numbers of which varied at various times. Under Romulus it consisted of 30o horse and 3,00o foot, afterwards augmented to 4,000 when the Sabines were incorporated ; in the wars with Hannibal it varied from 4,000 to 6,000. During the Republic two legions were usually, in peace, assigned each consul ; Augustus maintained from 23 to 25, Tiberius 27, and the peace establishment of Hadrian was 3o. Under the Empire there were special military centres where the legions were sta tioned : in Hadrian's reign 3 garrisoned Bri tain, x6 were on the Rhine and Danube (viz., 2 in Lower and 3 in Upper Germany, a in No ricum, x in Rhmtia, 3 in Mcesia, 4 in Pannonia, 2 in Dacia), 8 on the Euphrates (2 in Cappa docia and 6 in Syria), I in Egypt, x in Africa, and r in Spain ; and 20,000 troops, called city cohortes and prmtorian guards (see PRIETOR IAN') garrisoned Rome, or were in its imme diate vicinity. The legions were distinguished by numbers, according to the order in which they had been raised, Prima, Slcuncla, &c., and, under the Empire, bore as a second title the name of the emperor by whom they were embodied (as Augusta, Claudiana, &c.), and also a designation from their stations (as BM tannica, Gallica, &c.), or the scenes of their
achievements (as Parthicre, Arahica,Scythica, &c.), or from their patron god (Atineevia, &c.), or from some real or as sumed characteristic (as Martin, R apax, Frtlnzinatrix, Adjatrix, &c.). Each legion was divided into so cohortes, each cohors into 3 manipili, each manipiihrs into 2 centnrire or ordines (see CENTURIA, 2) ; and the chief officer of each legion was called the Legatees, or lieutenant, of the general. The standards originally bore a wolf, in honour of Romillus, afterwards sometimes a hog (from its being sacrificed at the conclusion of a peace), and also a horse, till the time of Marius, when the Aquila (an image, in silver, of an eagle, some , times holding a thunderbolt in its claws) be , came and continued the universal standard of the legions ; but Trojan also used a dragon. LELEGES, ler-i-,ges, an ancient piratical race (sprung from a lung Lil'ex of Megaris or Sparta), were the earliest immigrants to the Greek coasts and, isles, and were regarded as the ancestors of the piratical Teleboans and Taphians. Miletus was called Leligris as once peopled by them, and Meara mania.