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A cohort (from the Latin cohors, pl.: cohortes; see wikt:cohors for full inflection table) was a standard tactical military unit of a Roman legion.Although the standard size changed with time and situation, it was generally composed of 480 soldiers. [1]
First Cohort (Cohors Prima) – The first cohort was a double strength cohort (consisting of five double-strength centuriae), numbering 800 men (excluding officers). The centurion of its first centuria, the Primus Pilus, commanded the first cohort and was also the most senior centurion in the legion.
Primus pilus: the primus pilus was the commanding centurion of the first century, first cohort and the senior-most centurion of the entire legion. (Unlike other cohorts, the first cohort had only one javelin century, instead of a "front spear" and a "back spear" century.) The primus pilus had a chance of later becoming a praefectus castrorum.
At Abusina on the Rhine, the Cohors III Brittonum resided in a fort only a tenth the size of its old fort in the time of Trajan, suggesting that the cohort contained a mere 50 soldiers. This evidence must be used with caution insofar as the identifications of archaeological sites with the locations in the Notitia Dignatorum is often uncertain ...
The legions of the late Republic were, structurally, almost entirely heavy infantry. The legion's main sub-unit was called a cohort and consisted of approximately 480 infantrymen. The cohort was therefore a much larger unit than the earlier maniple sub-unit, and was divided into six centuriae of 80 men each. [61]
Cohort (taxonomy), in biology, one of the taxonomic ranks; Cohort study, a form of longitudinal study used in medicine and social science; Cohort analysis, a subset of behavioral analytics that takes the data from a given data set; Generational cohort, an aggregation of individuals who experience the same event within the same time interval
A recent report found that nearly 50% of millennials, a cohort known for their penchant for city apartments and ride-sharing, are now projected to migrate to suburban areas in pursuit of ...
A cohort based in Caesarea is referred to in the Acts of the Apostles (Ancient Greek: σπείρης τῆς καλουμένης Ἰταλικῆς, "of the cohort called Italian", in Acts 10:1, translated as the Italian band in the King James Version, or the Italian Regiment in the Good News Translation and World English Bible), and is associated with Cornelius the Centurion, the first ...