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Cohors, Caesar's Legion

Caesar's Legions · 1st century BC

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Framed print

  • 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
  • Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
  • Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
  • Shatterproof plexiglass
  • Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included

Hanging print

  • 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
  • Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
  • Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
  • Shatterproof plexiglass
  • Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
  • Sizes: 18x12″ · 24x16″ · 36x24″
  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Medium: Fine art paper
  • Style: Military plate
  • Era: Late Republic
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Cohors, Caesar's Legion: an illustration of Caesar's legion in battle order: ten cohorts in three lines of four, three and three, with one cohort enlarged
Cohors, Caesar's Legionc. 50 BC
Caesar's Legions · 1st century BC

Four, Three and Three

In the first century BC the cohort replaced the maniple as the working unit of the Roman legion. A cohort brought together a maniple each of the old hastati, principes and triarii, six centuries in all, and a legion had ten of them. A cohort is usually reckoned at about 480 men on paper, though the legions of the civil wars often ran far below strength.

Gaius Julius Caesar's own books, The Gallic War and The Civil War, are our best evidence for how these legions fought. Caesar usually formed a triple line, the acies triplex. In The Civil War he spells out the pattern: four cohorts of each legion in the first line, followed by three and then three more. The second line stood ready to relieve the first or close a gap. The third was a reserve the general could send to a threatened wing or use to turn the enemy's flank. At Pharsalus he took single cohorts from the third line to form a fourth line, which broke Pompey's cavalry.

The piece

The plate sets it out with the clarity of a drill book. Four orange-red cohorts stand in front, three deep red ones behind them, three black ones at the back, each drawn as a block of six squares. The Latin names sit beside each line with an English gloss. To the right, a framed detail enlarges one cohort and its six centuries.

Materia · The materials

Fine art paper, framed or hung.

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Pine frame

Black, dark wood or natural wood, FSC-certified. Framed prints arrive framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included.

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Fine art paper

Framed prints: 200 gsm smooth matte paper, printed in 12 colors with fade-resistant pigment inks.

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Shatterproof plexiglass

Protects the print in transit and on the wall.

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Magnetic wooden hanger

Posters: 250 gsm museum-quality matte paper between pine hangers in black or dark wood. The magnets hold the print, so you can swap it any time.

Size guide

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This piece, to scale, above an 84-inch sofa. Pick a size, or a format and frame above, and the wall follows.

Cohors, Caesar's Legion: an illustration of Caesar's legion in battle order: ten cohorts in three lines of four, three and three, with one cohort enlarged
Sofa · 84″ / 213 cm

Which size?

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Above a sofa or bed, art looks best at about two-thirds of the furniture's width, hung 8 to 10 inches above it.