Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Rorarii

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Rorarii

The name given in the old Roman legion to the citizens of the lowest property-class, who were armed only with a dart and a sling. These had to open the fighting in the capacity of skirmishers, and, when the close combat began, to withdraw behind the line. In later times their place was taken by the velites (q. v.). See Exercitus; Legio.

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

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