 Beginning in the 3rd century BC, legionaries were paid "stipendium" (amounts are disputed but Caesar famously "doubled" payments to his troops to 225 "denarii" a year), could anticipate booty and donatives (distributions of plunder by commanders) from successful campaigns and, beginning at the time of Marius, often were granted allotments of land upon retirement.Cavalry and light infantry attached to a legion (the "auxilia") were often recruited in the areas where the legion served.Caesar formed a legion, the Fifth Alaudae, from non-citizens in Transalpine Gaul to serve in his campaigns in Gaul.