Other Roman Cohorts
Some paramilitary corps in Rome consisted of one or more cohorts, though none were part of a legion:
- The nine cohortes praetoriae, never grouped to a legion, the famous and infamous Praetorians. The term was first used to refer to the bodyguard of a general during the Republic; later, a unit of Imperial guards (temporarily restyled cohors palatina, "Imperial Cohort", c. 300 AD, under Diocletian's tetrarchy).
- Cohors togata was a unit of the Praetorian guard in civilian dress tasked with duties within the pomerium (sacred center of the Capital, where all armed forces were forbidden).
- Cohortes urbanae, "urban cohort": military police unit patrolling in the capital.
- Cohortes vigilum, "watchmen"; unit of the police force annex fire brigade in the capital.
- Cohors Germanorum (LA): the unit of Germani custodes corporis (imperial body guards recruited in Germania).
Furthermore, the Latin word cohors was used in a looser way to describe a rather large "company" of people (see, for instance, cohors amicorum).
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