 Until the late Republican period, the typical legionary was a property-owning citizen farmer from a rural area (an "adsiduus") who served for particular (often annual) campaigns, and who supplied his own equipment and, in the case of "equites", his own mount.Harris suggests that down to 200 BC, the average rural farmer (who survived) might participate in six or seven campaigns.Freedmen and slaves (wherever resident) and urban citizens did not serve except in rare emergencies.