03-30-2014, 07:06 AM
HI Andreas, thanks! I didn't mean that Lentulus might be a legate - he serves with Paullus, who is one of four consuls and proconsuls commanding the army at Cannae.
Nothing like the rank of legatus at that time? That surprises me. A lot of the historical books I've read talk about Servilius Geminus (proconsul) and Minucius Rufus (magister equitum in 217) as commanding the eight legions next to the two consuls, and they certainly were not tribunes, and are sometimes referred to as legates. I call them legates once or twice in the narrative. I wouldn't know what else to call them.
Nothing like the rank of legatus at that time? That surprises me. A lot of the historical books I've read talk about Servilius Geminus (proconsul) and Minucius Rufus (magister equitum in 217) as commanding the eight legions next to the two consuls, and they certainly were not tribunes, and are sometimes referred to as legates. I call them legates once or twice in the narrative. I wouldn't know what else to call them.
Jenny Dolfen
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