“The most important fighting unit of the Roman Army was the legion commanded by a legatus.”

“Her legion of fans seems to swell with every passing day.”

“There is no human instrument, not the fastest laptop, not even a legion of cameras, that can record life as it happens.”

“How was he to beat a legionary if he had trouble figuring out how to hold a sword?”

“The former French foreign legionnaire was overtaking four cars when the Nissan turned right and collided with the bike.”

“It is kind of a risky thing to write a pop song about a legionnaire stuck in a desert.”

“Hate to join the dog pile but a thousand paces of a Roman legionnaire is no longer an applicable unit of measure.”

“I had it made for me, like all the other legionnaires, so it fits perfectly, even after all these years.”

“Roman legionnaires, for example, were not radically different in their equipment from the soldiers of Assyria a millennium before.”

“The name annuity dates back to Roman legionnaires who were paid an annual pension when they retired from the army.”

“Then the Roman legionaries swept away the smoking ashes and sowed the land with salt to prevent anything from ever growing there again.”

“When the teams formally slip on to the rink the Eagles are greeted like returning legionaries, to whom they bear more than a passing resemblance.”

“Between 5000 and 6000 legionaries made up a legion that was commanded by a legatus.”

“They fought the Roman legions and the Sassanid Persians, and in most cases lost.”

“An architect undertaking the construction of a temple or palace began with stacks of bricks, yards of timber, and legions of slaves.”

“Instead, the real issue is getting golf's expanding legions of fans to adhere to a time-honored code of behavior.”