Meaning of hastātus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a maniple, company of the hastātī
   declension-2, mainly
2. (mainly with primus, secundus,..., from the ellipsis of "centuriō ōrdinis (prīimī, secundī,...) hastātī" ("officer of the (first, second,...) hastātus")) a captain of an hastātus
   declension-2

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Examples

“Primus hastātus”

The first company of hastātī

“Nostri in primo congressu circiter LXX ceciderunt, in his Q. Fulginius ex primo hastato legionis XIIII, qui propter eximiam virtutem ex inferioribus ordinibus in eum locum pervenerat; …”

In the first contest, about seventy of us died; of them was Q. Fulginius serving as the centurion of the first company of hastati of the fourteenth legion. He had achieved this rank and worked his way from the lower orders of the army through his high valour.

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