Key sentence that needs more work from Tony McArthur's article on Roman Army "professionalism" before Augustus: "There is nothing to support the assertion that earlier Roman soldiers [pre-Augustus] were 'long-service' professionals, even is some repeatedly re-enlisted." (p. 25)
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Most other sources aren't as careful in noting new dilecti, formations, etc. Which means you'd have data from 219-179, then be partially blinded to 166, then almost entirely blind for the rest, forced to make assumptions in how to figure, for instance, Rome's long wars in Spain.
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Which is a real problem since it's precisely in that 150-50 BC period that we'd expect the nucleus of that sort of proto-professional Roman military class, constantly 're-upping' from one campaign to the next to emerge.
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