List of Roman army unit types

Accensus - a reservist or light legionary soldier.

Acceptarius - a discharged soldier.

Actarius - a military or camp clerk.

Adiutor - a camp or headquarters adjutant or assistant.

Aeneator - military musician such as a bugler

Agrimensor - a surveyor (a type of immunes).

Aquilifer - carried the legionary eagle.

Alaris - a cavalryman serving in an ala.

Architecti - an engineer or artillery constructor

Armicustos - a soldier tasked with the administration and supply of weapons and equipment. A quartermaster.

Ballistarius - an artillery operator (a type of immunes).

Beneficiarius - a soldier performing an extraordinary task such as military policing or a special assignment.

Bucinator - a trumpeteer or bugler

Cacula - servant or slave of a soldier.

Capsarior - a medical orderly.

Causarius - a soldier discharged for wounds or other medical reasons.

Centurion - officer rank, generally one per 80 soldiers, in charge of century.

Clinicus - a medic.

Cornicen - bugler

Doctor - a trainer, subdivisions for everything from weapons to hornblowing

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