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Which cops were those? What functions were carried out by this segment of the population which were cops, but according to you, had no name?
This is apart from the issue that 'police' and 'police state' are not synonymous.
What.
That's not even close.
... the Legions weren't even a standing army until Augustus's time. They were ad-hoc militia until the Late Republic, and then temporarily-raised units from then until the Empire. Nor was garrison duty a major function of the mid-Republican Legions.
That's not at all what 'novo homo' means. The plebeian/patrician divide was functionally dead by the early 3rd century BCE, and even before that, primarily related to candidacy for specific offices. Fuck, for that matter, even patrician families could include novi homines.
"Everything that isn't anarchism is fascism" is not a particularly useful way to use the term 'fascism', for... numerous reasons.