Magister pecoris camelorum

Magister pecoris camelorum ("Master of small cattle and camels") was an office in the Roman Empire of late antiquity . Only Calocaerus has survived as the bearer , a (apparently high) civil servant in Cyprus who was proclaimed emperor as a usurper in 333/334 - in the time of Constantine the Great - but was defeated and executed a short time later. Alexander Demandt suspects the title, handed down only by Aurelius Victor, to be a "supervisor of the state transport system [...] in a quasi-military position".

literature

Alexander Demandt : Magister militum. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume XII, Stuttgart 1970, col. 553-790, here col. 556.
Maciej Salamon: Calocaerus - magister pecoris camelorum e l'indole della sua rivolta in Cipro nel 334. In: Studi in onore di Arnoldo Biscardi. Volume 5, Milan 1984, pp. 79-85.

Remarks

^ Aurelius Victor, Liber de Caesaribus 41, 11.
↑ Alexander Demandt: Magister militum. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume XII, Stuttgart 1970, col. 553-790, here col. 556.

[1] Aurelius Victor, Liber de Caesaribus 41, 11.

[2] Alexander Demandt: Magister militum. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume XII, Stuttgart 1970, col. 553-790, here col. 556.