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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Didn’t the Romans start accepting barbarians into the Roman Legions...

Just before Rome fell?

65 posted on 08/20/2011 2:23:45 PM PDT by BUGSWOL (No one was ever burned at the stake for saying the Earth was flat)

To: BUGSWOL

Julius Caesar had fedoratti (barbarian conscripts) in his command as he conquered Gaul.

Ever since the Social Wars it had been Roman policy to accept conquered people into Roman society and the military on the basis of equality.

That's why Rome won the Social Wars and everybody else lost!

133 posted on 08/20/2011 3:22:09 PM PDT by muawiyah

To: BUGSWOL

Welcome to FR.

143 posted on 08/20/2011 3:32:28 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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