Legates
Social role / institution
Civil War 1.8 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… Thither comes the young L. Caesar whose father was one of Caesar’s legates. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 1.8
Caesar
… Thither comes the young L. Caesar whose father was one of Caesar’s legates. …
Civil War 1.30
Caesar
… Among the Lucani and Bruttii he was raising levies of Roman citizens through his legates, and was exacting a fixed number of cavalry and infantry from the townships of Sicily, When these measures were almost completed, hearing of the approach of Curio he complains in a public meeting that he had been flung aside and betrayed by Gn. Pompeius, who, while utterly unprepared in every particular, had undertaken an unnecessary war, and when questioned by himself and the rest in the senate had assured them that he had everything fit and ready for war. …
Civil War 1.38
Caesar
On the arrival of L. Vibullius Rufus, who, as we have shown, was sent by Pompeius into Spain, Afranius and Petreius and Varro, legates of Pompeius, of whom one held hither Spain with three legions, another further Spain from the pass of Castulo to the Anas with two legions, a third the district of the Vettones from the Anas and also Lusitania with an equal number of legions, divide their tasks in such a way that Petreius should march from Lusitania through the Vettones with all his forces to join Afranius, while Varro should protect the whole of further Spain with the legions under his command. …
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Civil War 1.8 · Civil War 1.30 · Civil War 1.38 · Civil War 1.71 · Civil War 2.11 · Civil War 2.12 · Civil War 2.13 · Civil War 3.13 · Civil War 3.15