For I was objectless as they And loitering idly day by day; But whenever I heard the recruiters come, I left my all to follow the drum.
"New-Poems"
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Put millions into the hands of your recruiters, and charge them to bring you a great leader and an army.
"The Simple Life"
Charles Wagner
Theoretically the state possessed a claim upon every able-bodied man, but the population of the empire was probably a hundred millions, and to collect a total of some 320,000 soldiers, made up of Roman or romanized "citizens" and of provincial subjects in about equal shares, was a sufficiently easy task, and the recruiters could therefore afford to pick and choose.
"Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul"
T. G. Tucker