Legatus (Lieutenant)
36
Sicilia
(Broughton MRR II)
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Legatus pro praetore (ILS 8891). Held command for Pompey of western Sicily against Lepidus (App. BC 5.97- 98). Summoned to Messana after Naulochus, and surrendered when Pompey fled to the East (App. BC 5.122). (Broughton MRR II)
Leg., lieut. 36. In MRR 2.405, refer also to ILLRP 426, and on his status as pr. desig. To Dio 48.36.4.[159]
(Broughton MRR III)
MRR (citing ILLRP 426=ILS 8891) has Plinius as legatus pro praetore & praetor designatus. If legatus in 36, perhaps designated praetor for the following year (DPRR Team)