Abstract

The vocabulary of command is analyzed in four different military treaties : On the cavalry commander by Xenophon, Poliorketica by Aeneas Tacticus, Tactics by Asclepiodotus and The General by Onasander. The terms which best define three of the aspects of command – i. e. to command (status and position of the one who commands), to order and to be obeyed – are purified from their original polysemy between the fourth century BC and the first century AD and thanks to quasi-technical specialized meanings, gradually highlight the orders and their execution more than the status of the one who commands.

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