Crossword-Solution: LEGIO 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Cernis et armorum proceres legumque potentes: Patricios sumunt habitus; et more Gabino Discolor incedit legio, positisque parumper Bellorum signis, sequitur vexilla Quirini.

But whencesoever you deriue the name, hard it is, in regard of the antiquity, to deduce the towne and Castle from their first originall; and yet I will not ioyne hands with them who terme it Legio, as founded by the Romanes, vnlesse they can approue the same by a Romane faith.

The same praise giueth he to Stilico the sonne in law of Honorius, and maketh mention of a legion of souldiers sent for out of Britaine in the periphrasis or circumlocution of the Gotish bloudie warres: Venit & extremis legio prætenta Britannis, Quas Scoto dat fræna truci, ferróq; notatas Perleget exanimes Picto moriente figuras.

Bernard with Legio XXI Rapax and detachments of IV Macedonica and XXII Primigenia: Valens through Gaul and over Mount Genèvre with Legio V Alaudae and detachments of I Italica, XV Primigenia, and XVI.

THE ARMY.--The Roman army was originally called _Legio_; and this name, which is coeval with the foundation of Rome, continued down to the latest times.