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A cohort.
Centurion it used to be a hundred men but over time it fell to 80 men to a century,which by the late first century AD would have been made up like this: MEN TOTAL 6 centuries of 80 men 480 {one cohort} 10 cohorts made up a legion thus: 9 cohorts of 480 men 4,320 men The first cohort was double sized and made up of ten centuries of 800 men 800 + 4,320= 5,120 men
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The Romans abandoned the phalanx because they found that the mobility of the maniple was much more effective. The phalanx was a close formed, rigid formation, whereas the maniple (and later cohort) could be deployed in various ways to better suit battle conditions.
Then the measured value is larger than the actual value.