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 1 1|          from eighteen to thirty five years, during which time
 2 1|          instance, if an army of five thousand infantry should
 3 2|          seen in the last twenty five years. And this example
 4 2|         Legions were composed of five or six thousand men, in
 5 2|         number of) four thousand five hundred infantry. And we
 6 2|         add another one thousand five hundred infantry, of whom
 7 2|      extraordinary pikemen, (and five hundred light armed, whom
 8 2|         the ordinary Veliti with five Heads of Ten. To the thousand
 9 2|          Veliti, two Constables, five Centurions, and fifty Heads
10 2|  thousand extraordinary pikemen, five hundred ordinary Veliti,
11 2|     hundred ordinary Veliti, and five hundred extraordinary Veliti:
12 2|      there would be one thousand five hundred Heads of Ten, and
13 2|         and fifteen flags, fifty five Centurions, ten Captains
14 2|       eighty ranks (files), with five per file. Then continuing
15 2|      there were eighty files and five (men) per file, they become
16 2|      files, twenty men per file, five files of pikemen in front,
17 2|       space which is between the five files of pikemen and the
18 2|         brought to eighty files, five per file, as we said a little
19 2|       behind every Centurion are five files of pikemen, and the
20 2|        by the numbers, that from five you make ten, ten twenty,
21 2|      front of fifteen, or twenty five or thirty or thirty five,
22 2|         five or thirty or thirty five, but you must proceed to
23 2|      arrange the eighty files of five per file, placing all the
24 2|        twenty files, and placing five of the Heads of Ten (of
25 2|         in the front of them and five in the rear: the other sixty
26 2|     ordinarily every Century has five files of pikemen in front,
27 2|      arrange the eighty files at five per file in this way: place
28 2|    middle, and behind him twenty five files that have two pikemen (
29 2|       right: and after the first five, in the next twenty, twenty
30 2|     pikemen. Behind these twenty five files thusly arranged, another
31 2|         these, and he has twenty five files behind him, in each
32 2|       right: and after the first five files are twenty Heads of
33 2|        be halted with the twenty five files which are behind him.
34 2|        right flank of the twenty five files to proceed so far
35 2|        Centurion with the twenty five files and with the fourth
36 2|         the last files of twenty five are in line with the files
37 2|         turn a company of twenty five solid files, of twenty infantry
38 2|           And in the last twenty five years, many towns have been
39 2|       every ten men-at-arms have five carriages and every ten
40 3|  arranged that each company have five ranks of pikes (pikemen)
41 3|        arranged in this way. The five companies should be placed
42 3|         forty wide. Behind these five Companies I would place
43 3|          line at the ends of the five, and the other should occupy
44 3|      width the same space as the five: but where the five would
45 3|          the five: but where the five would have a distance of
46 3|          which, as you know, are five hundred, and would place
47 3|    between the last of the first five companies and the extraordinary
48 3|          and would cover an area five hundred and eleven arm lengths
49 3|        which, in your Army, have five ranks of pikemen at the
50 3|      employ but four, or at most five, because the pikes are nine
51 3| reinforcements for those (first) five ranks. If, therefore, five
52 3|       five ranks. If, therefore, five of their ranks can control
53 3|      control cavalry, why cannot five of ours control them, to
54 3|       ours control them, to whom five ranks behind them are also
55 3|          you form the front with five on each side the center
56 3|      also answer me this. If the five companies retire among the
57 3|         the same space which the five occupied.~FABRIZIO: The
58 3|          the same space; for the five have four spaces between
59 3|          added to this, that the five ranks of pikemen who are
60 5|         lengths, and would place five companies in each flank
61 5|     place another ten companies, five on each side, arranging
62 5|          of the right flank, and five at the rear of the left
63 5|     every side, I would see that five companies are placed in
64 5|   therefore I would see that the five companies in the rear should
65 5|        to be considered that the five companies in front protect
66 5|        the pikemen in front. The five companies behind protect
67 5|    demonstrate in its place. The five companies on the right flank
68 5|         right flank outward. The five on the left, engird all
69 5|        Battalion place its first five companies in the front,
70 5|          in the front, the other five on the left flank, and the
71 5|          of the front. The first five companies of the second
72 5|       right flank, and the other five in the rear, and the Head
73 5|         to their places, and the five companies that I placed
74 5|        not weaken it. But as the five companies in the back have
75 6|        point, six hundred thirty five (635) arm lengths. I then
76 6|      Captain occupies, and forty five arm lengths of plaza which
77 6|       extraordinary pikemen, and five hundred Veliti; so that
78 6|       extraordinary pikemen, and five hundred Veliti; so that
79 6|           I would place a row of five double quarters which would
80 6|  quarters which would be seventy five arm lengths long and sixty
81 6|       would place another row of five double quarters in a similar
82 6|           so that there would be five rows of five double quarters,
83 6|      there would be five rows of five double quarters, which would
84 6|       would quarter one thousand five hundred infantry. Turning
85 6|          them and the said gate, five other rows of double quarters,
86 6|          be quartered a thousand five hundred infantry: and thus
87 6|         divided into ten rows of five double quarters per row,
88 6|          formations) were twenty five to thirty arm lengths wide.
89 6|         in the year one thousand five hundred three (1503) were
90 7|       will be excavated at least five or six arm lengths deep.