What is "legates"

Usage examples of "legates".

Metellus Pius called a meeting with his three legates, and Varro as always accompanied Pompey.

Carbo and his legates must halt Sulla at Arretium, not a difficult thing to do when Sulla had but three legions.

To his legates he turned a calm face, and made no mention of relocating himself or his forces.

And while Carbo waited for events to shape themselves, tell him what he must do, news came first from Italian Gaul that Norbanus and his legates Quinctius and Albinovanus were beaten, that Metellus Pius and Varro Lucullus held Italian Gaul for Sulla.

Vatia after he and Sulla had ridden with the other legates to inspect the ground and see what sort of battle was going to develop.

Sulla and Vatia and the legates who had accompanied them settled down with Crassus and Torquatus and the men of the right division to a jolly feast while Antemnae burned and Lucius Sergius Catilina went happily about his grisly business.

Paired with him and clad in purple-bordered toga rode Lucius Valerius Flaccus, the Princeps Senatus, and behind him rode his legates in pairs, including Metellus Pius and Varro Lucullus, who had been summoned from Italian Gaul four days earlier, and had driven hard to be here on this great occasion.

Had it not been for the valor and promptness of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, his legates, and his army, Rome would now be in the power of Samnium, and we would be passing under the yoke just as we did after the Caudine Forks.

Dolabella I can understand-all of your legates got to know of the bargain you made with him, Sulla!

I ought to find things to say about grander men-senior legates, for example.

Caesar to himself afterward, was worthier praise than all the platitudes and congratulations Lucullus and Thermus and the legates heaped upon him during the banquet they gave in his honor.

Lucullus, their legates, officials and tribunes returned to Rome at the end of June.

Rome and that we must answer to the governor, to his legates and officials, and through him to the Senate and People of Rome.

He always excluded it from his house when he conferred with his legates, and it would mope, sure it had in some inexplicable way offended Daddy.

Not one word did his senior legates say, just waited dumbly to be told what Pompey wanted to do next.