contact between soldiers and other citizens and non-citizens was still further fostered by the direct involvement of soldiers in the day-to-day administration
of the Empire.
Legionary Amphitheatre at Vindonissa (Windisch, in Switzerland). Vindonissa was the fortress of the Thirteenth Legion from about A.D. 16, and was
subsequently occupied by the Twenty-first and Eleventh Legions before being evacuated about 100. The amphitheatre was used both for military drill and
to provide the entertainments to which the legionary soldiers were accustomed at home.
A study of a system of government must not only concern itself with top level decision-making and the bureaucracy which may give it stability and
effectiveness; it must also give some account of the actual execution of the directives which emanate from these two sources. Who, we must ask, actually