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46.11. See chapter on military affairs, VII, for description of a battle. — singulos legatos, etc., i.e.a legatus in command of each legion. This was the beginning of a very important reform in the military organization. Caesar felt so keenly the evil of the command being divided among six tribunes that he detailed one of his legati nominally to assist the tribunes. After this time, we find the legatus as the regular commander of a legion, with the six tribunes under him. On this occasion, having only five legati, he also appointed his quartermaster quaestor to that one of the six legions which was intended to be under his own special command.


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