He insists on the militarization of Romans in his other writings too, specifically the October one : > In no small part, that success seems to have been motiva

He insists on the militarization of Romans in his other writings too, specifically the October one : > In no small part, that success seems to have been motivated by the avowed need of elite patricians for the support of the plebeian commons in order to campaign, since the plebeians made up most of the army [of the Roman Republic]. So, no the Roman Republic did not have a professional army. (Neither, AFAIK did the Roman Empire : they went from mandatory draft to mercenaries ?) But good point, and I don't know enough about the Greek republics, maybe they were pretty close to the Roman one for this question ?