That’s a difficult question to answer because the Romans had no unit comparable to our squad. The smallest fighting unit in the Roman army was the century, which would come closest to our definition of a squad. A century consisted of 80 men. Yes, there was a tent unit of eight men, but they were not a fighting unit, they were simply a sleeping unit and many times did not serve in the same fighting units.

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