Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.1, pp. 392-434
 
The Significance of the Centurion and 'Primipilaris' in the Roman Army and Administration
by Brian Dobson, Durham

Table of Contents

I. The development of the centurion-primipilaris career

398

1. The Republic

393

2. The Augustan experiments

395

3. The establishment of a distinctive career

399

4. Later developments

402
II. The centurionate 403

1. Entry into the centurionate

403

2. Promotion and pay

407

3. Centurions from the castra peregrina and the fleet

409
III. The primipilate and beyond 411

1. The post of primuspilus

411

2. The post of praefectus castrorum

413

a) The ordinary prefecture

413

b) praefectus castrorum Aegypti

415

3. The Rome tribunates

417

4. The primuspilus iterum

420

5. The procuratorial career for primipilares

421
IV. The centurion and primipilaris in society 426

V. The working of the career - a possible reconstruction

427
VI. The disappearance of the career 429
VII. Conclusions 432
Abbreviations and Bibliography 433
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