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A Roman legion (from Latin legio "military levy, conscription," from legere — "to choose") normally indicates the basic ancient Roman army unit recruited specifically from Roman citizens. The organization of legions varied greatly over time but were typically composed of up to 5,000 soldiers, originally divided into maniples and later into cohorts. Maniples/Cohorts were divided into centuries.
In reference to the early Kingdom of Rome (as opposed to the republic or empire) "the legion" means the entire Roman army.
For most of the Roman Imperial period, the legions were a part of the Imperial army and formed its elite heavy infantry, recruited exclusively from Roman citizens (provincials who aspired to the citizenship gained it when honorably discharged from the auxiliaries). Each legion always included a small cavalry attachment. The Roman army (for most of the Imperial period) consisted mostly of "auxiliary" cohorts who provided additional infantry, and the vast majority of the Roman army's cavalry.
In the English language, black sheep is an idiom used to describe an odd or disreputable member of a group, especially within a family. The term has typically been given negative implications, implying waywardness. It derived from the atypical and unwanted presence of other black individuals in flocks of white sheep.
In psychology, the black sheep effect refers to the tendency of group members to judge likeable ingroup members more positively and deviant ingroup member more negatively than comparable outgroup members.
The term originated from the occasional black sheep which are born into a flock of white sheep due to a genetic process of recessive traits. Black wool was considered commercially undesirable because it could not be dyed. In 18th and 19th century England, the black color of the sheep was seen as the mark of the devil. In modern usage, the expression has lost some of its negative connotations, though the term is usually given to the member of a group who has certain characteristics or lack thereof deemed undesirable by that group.
Ancient are your miracles
(Not solving, deceiving)
There is no truth beyond your words
(Just catching, misleading)
Denial of individuals
(Your teaching, they're bleeding)
Your power is not based on any facts
Now take a look at us
(We are the legion)
Try to blind us
We'll think for ourselves
Congratulations to your thousand years old Reich
But we aproach the dusk of your reign
Now and forever I just hope that
Freedom of mind will come to rule again
Now take a look at us
(We are the legion)
Try to blind us
We'll think for ourselves
Did you think we are deaf, dumb and blind?
Do you want to see your children starve in poverty
No? Why do you then still stick to your rules of pregnancy?
Forbidding medical improvements
To those who are dying
Now take a look at us
(We are the legion)
Because of believing you
Our name is legion
Cause we are many
Our name is legion
Because we are your demise