Geoffrey D. Tully's THE MILITARY MEANING OF THE TERM 'DUX' FROM CAESAR TO GALLIENUS

Professor Lawrence Keppie has very kindly provided me with scans of this Appendix from Dr. Geoffrey D. Tully's Vexillatio : temporary units and special commands of the Roman army 211 BC-AD 268 (2002), PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, The University of Queensland.  I am posting this because, according to Keppie, one of the world's foremost Latin epigraphers, it represents the best recent assessment of the nature of the role of the Roman dux.  As it happens, the conclusion reached by Tully in this piece completely contradicts the claim made by Linda D. Malcor and colleagues that the 2nd century Lucius Artorius Castus, as camp prefect of the Sixth Legion, was as dux the de facto governor of the province of Britain.  To date, I have not found a single respected, professional Roman military historian or Latin epigrapher who will accept their theory as valid. Tully's work thus echoes those of Tomlin, Birley and others in insisting that LAC was merely acting on a temporary basis as a junior officer in charge of legionary vexillations.

Note that these scans are jpeg images and my readers may have to enlarge them to make them readable.  I have posted them here in as large a size as the blog parameters will permit.  

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