page_title: Military of ancient Rome
section_title: Scale
hierarchical_section_title: Military of ancient Rome / Medicine / Scale
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Roman legions by 212 AD. Source: http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1447/files/2014/05/Roman-legions-212-AD-Centrici-site-Keilo-Jack.jpg
context_page_description: The military of ancient Rome, according to Titus Livius, one of the more illustrious historians of Rome over the centuries, was a key element in the rise of Rome over “above seven hundred years” from a small settlement in Latium to the capital of an empire governing a wide region around the shores of the Mediterranean, or, as the Romans themselves said, ‘’mare nostrum’’, “our sea". Livy asserts:
  ”... if any people ought to be allowed to consecrate their origins and refer them to a divine source, so great is the military glory of the Roman People that when they profess that their Father and the Father of their Founder was none other than Mars, the nations of the earth may well submit to this also with as good a grace as they submit to Rome's dominion.”
  Titus Flavius Josephus, a contemporary historian, sometime high-ranking officer in the Roman army, and commander of the rebels in the Jewish revolt describes the Roman people as if they were "born readily armed."
context_section_description: By the time of Trajan (53AD-117AD), the medical corps was well on the way to being an organized machine.  At this time, Physicians were attached to nearly every Army and Navy Unit in all the Roman Military.  By this time the Army was massive, consisting of twenty-five to thirty legions, each of which contained nearly 6,000 men.  Each one included both soldiers and physicians.  Despite these massive numbers there was still no formal requirements for being a physician.  At this point all physicians were either self-taught or learned their trade through an apprenticeship.  Despite this, there was an attempt at organization, as the army did have a medical manual that was passed out to its physicians.  The Medici were used on both the front line as emergency care providers and in the rear as the main physicians.  The Capsarii were mainly used as the front line care providers and bandages, but also assisted the Medici behind the lines.
caption: Shows where various Roman Legions were stationed
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