>>I must confess I couldn't think of an appropriate title...
>This is someone to whom chunks of a job are delegated?
That's what 'legatus' means, anyone to whom parts of a job are delegated - preferably at a distance from their boss. Military legates are so called as a specific use of the term for a job which din't have any other title.
Another possibility for staff positions, would be strategus, since the Athenian strategoi often generalled by committee. Epistrategus, perhaps, for someone not in the chain of command.
'Rector' is someone who directs; hence its use as one of several terms for "governor" after Diocletian. But I agree we shouldn't use it here.
>"Rector" has this meaning, I think. And the "normal" functions
>associated with the word are so non-military that I don't think there
>would be any confusion that we might have really meant that instead.
The Lunar Empire should have, as general terms for VIPs, Legates AND Counts AND Emperor's Friends; and at least one Legate should be empowered to command all Counts, and conversely. The use of Chaos as an administrative technique...
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>From: "Jane Williams" <janewilliams20_at_...>
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>To: <whitewall_at_yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: RE: Re: Something completely different
>Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 19:33:02 +0100
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> > I must confess I couldn't think of an appropriate title...
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>This is someone to whom chunks of a job are delegated?
>"Rector" has this meaning, I think. And the "normal" functions
>associated with the word are so non-military that I don't think there
>would be any confusion that we might have really meant that instead.
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> > Geriatric Eunuch Army commander!
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>An interesting model to borrow, I agree.
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> > I wonder whether Euglyptus
> > the Fat might have been a Eunuch?
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>If he is, it's going to completely wreck a possible story (still very
>much in tentative/draft mode, though). By all means have this as a
>rumour. That would fit nicely. But as hard fact - no, please not.
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