Camp-Building: relief on Trajan's Column in Rome (dedicated in A.D. 113). The sculptured narrative of the emperor's Dacian campaigns shows the army
in all its varied activities, including not only actual engagements with the enemy but also marching, sacrificing, entrenching, and listening to imperial
addresses.
As the Hellenistic cities came increasingly to group themselves in leagues or to submit to the control of their foreign affairs by the kings and eventually by
Rome, military titles such as strategos, 'army-leader', often lost their military connotations. So at Rome the praetors first, and with the Empire the consuls,
came to acquire what we would call civilian functions. From the middle Republic the praetors were mainly concerned with jurisdiction, though it is
interesting to observe that the regular Greek term for praetor (the Greek equivalents of Latin constitutional terms are often very revealing) is in fact