Maniple (military unit)
Maniple (Latin: manipulus; lit. 'a handful [of soldiers]') was a tactical unit of the Roman Republican armies, adopted during the Samnite Wars (343–290 BC). It was also the name of the military insignia carried by such units.
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Maniple members, called commanipulares (SG: commanipularis) were seen as each other's brothers-in-arms, but without the domestic closeness of the eight-man contubernium.
Cohorts replaced maniples as organisational units.
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