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The End of the Primus Pilus
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11-21-2011, 01:51 AM
Quote:http://www.jstor.org/stable/20185743
Ah, thanks Duncan! German title, French text - should have guessed! :-)

It did allow me to locate the Clive Foss essay, upon which M. Carrie is commenting, which in turn gave me some grounding in what Carrie might be saying... He appears to date the 'militarisation' of the titles of civil servants to the reign of Aurelian, with primipili coming in as the heads of departments. Not sure if there's any particular crossover with the former military rank, or what might have happened to the latter in the meantime.

'Bryonianus Jasonianus' (from the Foss essay) is one of the stranger Roman names I've seen though! Confusedhock:
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The End of the Primus Pilus - by Nathan Ross - 11-12-2011, 09:57 PM
Re: The End of the Primus Pilus - by Doc - 11-13-2011, 06:33 AM
Re: The End of the Primus Pilus - by Vindex - 11-13-2011, 01:31 PM
Re: The End of the Primus Pilus - by Nathan Ross - 11-13-2011, 04:22 PM
Re: The End of the Primus Pilus - by Vindex - 11-13-2011, 10:21 PM
Re: The End of the Primus Pilus - by Nathan Ross - 11-16-2011, 02:27 AM
Re: The End of the Primus Pilus - by Nathan Ross - 11-20-2011, 05:45 PM
Re: The End of the Primus Pilus - by D B Campbell - 11-20-2011, 10:45 PM
Re: The End of the Primus Pilus - by Nathan Ross - 11-21-2011, 01:51 AM

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