Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), V, Vaticānus Mons, Velĭtes

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Velĭtes

（γροσφομάχοι, “skirmishers”). The name given in the old Roman legion to the 1200 citizens of the lowest class in the census, who were distributed among the sixty centuries; they differed from the other soldiers in having lighter armour. (See Legio.) When Marius introduced a uniform type of armour throughout all the ranks, this distinction disappeared.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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