A tension exists within the literary sources for early Rome, between the supposedly static nature of military authority, embodied by the grant ofimperiumwhich was allegedly shared both by archaicregesand republican magistrates, and the evidence for change within Rome’s military hierarchy, with the early republican army being commanded by a succession of different magistrates including the archaicpraetores, the so-called ‘consular tribunes,’ and the finally the consuls and praetors of the mid-fourth centuryBC. The differences between the magistracies and the motivations driving the evolution of the system have caused confusion for both ancient and modern writers alike, with the usual debate being focused on the number of officials involved under each system and Rome’s expanding military and bureaucratic needs. The present study will argue that, far more than just varying in number, when viewed against the wider backdrop of Roman society during the period, the sources hint that the archaicpraetoresand consular tribunes might have exercised slightly different types of military authority – possibly distinguished by the designationsimperiumandpotestas– which were unified under the office of the consulship of 367BC.1The changes in Rome’s military hierarchy during the fifth and fourth centuriesBCmay therefore not only indicate an expansion of Rome’s military command, as is usually argued, but also an evolution of military authority within Rome associated with the movement of power from thecomitia curiatato thecomitia centuriata.

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367b的执政官​​与罗马军事权威的演变

早期罗马的文学资料中存在着一种紧张关系，在军事权威的所谓静态性质之间，体现为授予帝国据称，这两者都被古人所共享寄存器和共和治安官，以及罗马军事等级制度变化的证据，早期的共和军由一系列不同的治安官指挥，包括古代的执政官，所谓的“领事论坛”，最后是四世纪中叶的领事和执政官公元前. 地方长官之间的差异以及推动该制度演变的动机给古代和现代作家都造成了困惑，通常的争论集中在每个制度下涉及的官员数量以及罗马不断扩大的军事和官僚需求上。本研究将认为，从这一时期罗马社会的更广泛背景来看，不仅仅是数量上的变化，消息来源暗示古代执政官和领事馆可能行使了稍微不同类型的军事权力——可能通过名称来区分帝国和波特斯塔– 统一在 367 的领事馆之下公元前.1五、四世纪罗马军事等级制度的变化公元前因此，这可能不仅表明罗马军事指挥权的扩张，正如通常所说的那样，而且还表明罗马内部军事权威的演变与权力的转移有关。会议到百人会.