09-04-2010, 01:35 AM
Quote:Personally, I think that 2-3 years is a bit too short per post on average, as it means that the equestrian "junior officer career" would have lasted less than a decade.
But do we know that posts were held consecutively? Assuming that appointments were quite hard to come by, it would have been a lucky man who could move directly from one post to the next. Could there not have been gaps in between each post, thus extending the 'military' career by several more years?
Quote:It's also important that the 2-3 years estimate comes from, IIRC, detailed analysis of career patterns in the Eastern legions... but career patterns in the West were probably different.
Interesting! Why would they be different, and in what ways?
Quote:Nathan Ross:1y278uhn Wrote:The oldest known senatorial tribune (according to DB Campbell) was aged 21.Oh, really?hock: I guess I must've been thinking of Gnaeus Plotius Maximinus...
Duncan - I was referring to your note in the other thread I linked above! But thanks for the additional information.
Quote:I think I'm right in saying that we don't know any of the tribunes who served with Titus.
Another point worth making on this subject - the legate of the Tenth Fretensis during the siege and capture of Jerusalem was aged only 28-30! He won the corona muralis and hasta pura during the final assault, but appears to have had no previous military experience. All of our presumed rules have their exceptions... :o
- Nathan
Nathan Ross
