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Webster 1913 Edition
Legion
Le′gion
(lē′jŭn)
, Noun.
1.
(Rom. Antiq.)
A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, – from about four thousand to about six thousand men, – the cavalry being about one tenth.
2.
A military force; an army; military bands.
3.
A great number; a multitude.
Where one sin has entered,
legions
will force their way through the same breach. Rogers.
4.
(Taxonomy)
A group of orders inferior to a class.
Legion of honor
, an order instituted by the French government in 1802, when Bonaparte was First Consul, as a reward for merit, both civil and military.
Webster 1828 Edition
Legion
LE'GION
,Noun.
1.
In Roman antiquity, a body of infantry consisting of different numbers of men at different periods, from three to five thousand. Each legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into ten companies, and each company into two centuries.2.
A military force; military bands.3.
A great number.Where one sin has entered, legions will force their way through the same breach.
My name is legion, for we are many. Mark 5.