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If you are looking at Rome at the 1st century B.C.E. you'd see that most roman soldiers (high officers like Generals excluded) were forbidden from getting married. In order to get married legally, you would have to gain special permission from either very high ranking people in the military, or a state official. Most soldiers refrained from this anyway, especially enlisted soldiers since they all signed 10 year enlistments initially, and most of them would be stationed far from Rome or the Italian peninsula for the duration of their time.
I'm pulling this from the textbook, The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History by Pat Southern
(http://smile.amazon.com/The-Roman-Army-Institutional-History/dp/1851097309/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395411038&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Roman+Army%3A+A+Social+and+Institutional+History) It's an expensive textbook, so I don't expect you to buy it, but if you are intrigued by the Roman military, there isn't a better book that I've come across that outlines everything so well.