This meant in the first instance the tokens used in the service of the camp, the -- xuleiphia kata phulakein brachea teleos echonta charakteira-- (Polyb.vi.35, 7); the four -vigiliae- of the night-service gave name to the tokens generally.

The fourfold division of the night for the service of watching is Greek as well as Roman; the military science of the Greeks may well have exercised an influence--possibly through Pyrrhus (Liv.xxxv.

14)--in the organization of the measures for security in the Roman camp.

The employment of the non-Doric form speaks for the comparatively late date at which theword was taken over.
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