Now, as according to the ancient maxim of law, that every person under obligation of service might become an officer (p.

106), it was legally allowable for the general to appoint a Latin as leader of a Roman, as well as conversely a Roman as leader of a Latin, legion, this led to the practical result that the -tribuni militum- were wholly, and the -praefecti sociorum- at least ordinarily, Romans.
5.

These were the -decuriones turmarum- and -praefecti cohortium- (Polyb.vi.21, 5; Liv.xxv.

14; Sallust.Jug.69, et al.) Of course, as the Roman consuls were in law and ordinarily also in fact commanders-in-chief, the presidents of the community in the dependent towns also were perhaps throughout, or at least very frequently, placed at the head of the community-contingents (Liv.xxiii.

19; Orelli, Inscr.