Military leadership in the Roman Republic. Its organisation and state relation.

 The Roman Republic was a fractured society with strict laws and the custom of father-right, paterfamilias. Those laws influenced Britain before the passage of the Married Womens Property Act 1876.

Military leadership was based on the military dualism of two pro-consuls who were appointed by the Patrician Senate to hold the army in balance. Slaves and captives had no rights leaving St Paul with no wriggle-room in the instance of the escaped slave (and those traditions pertained until the destruction of Rome in A.D432) (Letter to Philemon,A.D. 67).

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Senatus Populus et Quaestor Romani.

Rome entered the Imperial Age after the collapse of the Triumvirate of Pompey, Brutus and Julius Caesar,a society with many competing interests and and an ever-growing body of destitute and gluttons for drink and rich food,the Stoics and Epicureans,Marx was an admirer of the latter.( In our time,the frugal worker believes in paying his own way or in the case of the free spirit working his passage back to where he came from. We think, likewise,of the Mancunian and the the Wild Geese who fought for France, Prussia,Austria Hungary,Spain and Russia as mercenaries before the advent of militarism in 1793).