Hastati (sg.: hastatus) were a class of infantry employed in the armies of the early Roman Republic, who originally fought as spearmen and later as swordsmen...
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the advance of the hastati. If the hastati failed to break the enemy, they would fall back on the principes, who along with the hastati, had been re-equipped...
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than the hastati, and having more experience on the battlefield, they would take up the second line in the battle in the event the Hastati failed or...
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was organized into four lines, starting at the front: the velites; the hastati; the principes; and the triarii. These were divided by experience, with...
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the pre-Marian Roman Republic included the hastati, principes, and triarii (although depending how the hastati were armed and armored, they could also be...
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legionaries, for which the Roman soldiers known as hastati were named. In later republican times, the hastati were re-armed with pila and gladii, and the hasta...
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Principes; Princeps Prior Princeps Posterior Of the centuriae of a manipulus of Hastati; Hastatus Prior Hastatus Posterior For the Imperial and late Republican...
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the hastati. Both Bahmanyar and Goldsworthy suggest this was an opportunity for the Carthaginian third line to counter-attack the disorganised hastati, but...
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Hastatis is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae. Hastatis auricollis Buquet, 1857 Hastatis denticollis Buquet, 1857 Hastatis femoralis...
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form their own units; a number of them were attached to each maniple of hastati, principes and triarii. They were typically used as a screening force,...
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