A group of orders inferior to a class; in scientific classification, a term occasionally used to express an assemblage of objects intermediate between an order and a class
a large military unit; "the French Foreign Legion" association of ex-servicemen; "the American Legion
{i} unit of the Roman army consisting of 3, 000 to 6, 000 soldiers; military unit, army; multitude, mass
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