Historical Titus Pullo later appeared in historical records as one of Pompey's centurions. I believe that tells us all about which one ultimately didn't get the promotion :D

@MarvilatAggies

2 жыл бұрын

At least his name will live on forever. "Pullo! Back into formation!!!!"

@RexGalilae

2 жыл бұрын

I think I've heard he defected to Pompey at some point

@pappy374

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarvilatAggies Thirteen! THIRTEEN!!!!!!

@PalleRasmussen

2 жыл бұрын

He did not switch sides because he did not get the promotion. In fact it rather looks as if he got it. I quote Wiki (it was no harder than that); "Vorenus then disappears from history. However, it is known that in the Civil War of 49 BC, Pullo was assigned to the XXI Victrix Rapax, a new Italian legion commanded by the legate Gaius Antonius. In 48 BC, Antonius was blockaded on an island and forced to surrender; Pullo was apparently responsible for most of his soldiers switching sides to fight for Pompey. Later that year, he is recorded bravely defending Pompey's camp in Greece from Caesar's attack shortly before the Battle of Pharsalus." (Dio Cassius, Roman History 41.40; Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili 3.67) As a historian I would note that Dio is late, and his information about things that happened 200 years before he wrote could have been sketchy, so I would try and check what he wrote and perhaps that that with a grain of salt. But I would also note that in the instances where I have checked Dio's information against other sources, he is not too bad.

@PalleRasmussen

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarvilatAggies what do you mean "forever"? Do you think modern media will last as long as Caesar's Commentaries? That is quite the presumption.

In the British army for as long as theres been sergeants you've probably heard this, a sergeant to a new recruit-"Don't call me sir, I work for a living". Centurions probably said something very similar.

@Hurrikeane

6 ай бұрын

My grandpa was a sergeant in ww2, Korea and Vietnam and if you called him sir. It was like someone lit a fire under his ass. He would SCREAM I WORK FOR A LIVING, DONT CALL ME THAT. 🤣

@RDW503

6 ай бұрын

I think that saying is a universal NCO "thing" 😂

@jelkel25

6 ай бұрын

@@RDW503 My "favorite" was a sergeant would walk over to someone obviously struggling with something like a route march and gently say in their ear "remember, pain is just weakness leaving the body", with a huge smile on their face. It cracked me up every time.

@BIATEC88

5 ай бұрын

My best friend's uncle's girlfriend's brother has a pet hamster that was a centurion in a legion stationed in the middle east in a previous life

@Bobblenob

4 ай бұрын

Other than a centurion was probably the equivalent of a major.

Recently stumbled across this channel from Invicta's recommendation and immediately found myself hooked! The content your team creates is truly excellent from both the educational and technical perspectives. Thank you for sharing the product of your skillsets and passion for history with the world --

@Literarydilettante

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@williameichler5297

2 жыл бұрын

Same here

@victoriandino

2 жыл бұрын

Same for me

@ImperiumRomanumYT

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you A Nes, that is a compliment we are proud of!

@johnleyja4895

2 жыл бұрын

Yup same here 😎

As a 35yr follower of Roman history, I've only recently found this channel and for people just taking an interest in this subject its absolutely essential viewing! Extremely well done,excellent information clearly delivered. 👏 I'd just like to say to Imperium Romanum thank you,well done and please keep up the great work.😁👍👍👍

@RexGalilae

2 жыл бұрын

I hope to live another 30 years so I can also have the same bragging rights as you :D A hell of a thing to be a Romanophile for 35 years

@ImperiumRomanumYT

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Shaun, I still have to become 35! Thank you for this epic response!

@KumarAnshs

10 ай бұрын

@@RexGalilaeso you are 5 years old?

It sounds like a Centurion functioned very much like a Staff NCO in Modern Armed forces.

@laisphinto6372

11 ай бұрын

along with funny headpieces they take great pride in although the centurion crest is way cooler, todays drill instructor would love the vitis but for the sanity of recruits that will only be in their barrack nightmares

Have you ever considered doing a video on late Roman Foederati? You went over foreign troops in Roman service in the early empire so it would be cool to see the foreign Roman soldiers in the late empire.

I don't normally comment on things, but the quality of content, production, and conciseness is hard to find these days. Here's one for the algorithm. Follow this path forever please.

@ImperiumRomanumYT

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this kind comment Tyler, we are trying our best!

Now that's what you call history. Excellent production,and informative.

At 4:21 I had to laugh because, as much as we today want to be different from antiquity, things like this show that some things have not changed in 2000 years. Letters of recommendation are still so important for any post and if you are rich, or you/your parents know the right people, they are so much easier to come by.

@perceivedvelocity9914

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing.

@Luc-uw8ur

2 жыл бұрын

Me too… 😉

@ronaldbobeck1026

2 жыл бұрын

50 yrs ago my military service during the Vietnam War sounds like like what it was like for me and my buddies. Incompetent senior leadership, Our NCO 's for the most part attempted to keep us alive and cared for.

@matthiasthulman4058

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronaldbobeck1026 I was going to directly reference Vietnam for some of the worst examples of this. Both the rich getting preferable treatment, and the poor getting the absolute shit end of the stick. IE McNamara's 100,000.

@rickn8or

2 жыл бұрын

And things are still similar; Chief's run the Navy, Sergeants run the Army, etcl.

You forgot to mention that beign able to read and write was a crucial requirment for a centurion.

This channel is going to be big, the quality is great. Ive added you guys to my recommended viewing playlist to try and funnel more viewers your way. Best of luck and i look forward to seeing where the channel goes. 👍

@ImperiumRomanumYT

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for that mate! We're hoping we'll get to the real big audiences rather sooner than later!

This reminds me of officers getting put into West Point. It takes influence to get there so some things just haven't changed.

Now I TRULY understand Augustus’ anquish when he said “Give me back my Legions!”

This just popped up in my suggested videos. I am very impressed. The video is very well done. It' snot only well organized, it provided me with a much better picture of the role of a centurion than I had had before.

I'm a Roman Reenactor myself and I surely love doing it. I love it so much. Also I loved this so much Subscribed.

That was absolutely fantastic! I am so glad Invicta recommended you in one of his latest videos!

That is a fantastic piece of content! I have already shared it with other members of our Roman Living history group. Thanks for doing it!

idk how this came into my feed but I'm glad it did. It's impressive how concise and interesting these are. I particularly like the little silent "skits" you show in the background, because of how easily it's possible to tell what's going on without hearing any dialogue

So happy to have been recommended this channel. You are doing important work and we are grateful. Greetings from Texas. Rome forever

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Incredibly impressed with your content and passion. Thank you for this.

I'm so happy to see a video from this channel in my notifications when I come home from work 😊

Jullie documentaires zijn enorm mooi in elkaar gezet, zeg!

@ImperiumRomanumYT

2 жыл бұрын

Dankjewel, dat is een mooi compliment!

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Superb content and historically accurate presentation. Your attention to detail is amazing. Thank you my friends. More please.

@ImperiumRomanumYT

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I live for this now, thank you Invicta for sharing this amazing channel with us 😩🤚

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18:47 "Now! Today we are gonna do marching up and down the square! That is unless any of you have anything... BETTER TO DO!" Now, jokes aside, keep the great work, this is amazing lads.

I loved this one! Very informative and well put together

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I'm so glad I found this channel! It fills a unique niche not filled before, even in Roman history. Makes me especially happy to see our Germanic friends pay due homage to Rome through such wonderful documentaries :D

@Jayce_Alexander

2 жыл бұрын

I was a visiting professor of History at a university in the Netherlands for a year, and I think you'll be delighted to hear Roman history is a perennial favourite field of focus among historically-minded barbarians. The auxilia live on in academia! 😉

@TimDutch

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jayce_Alexander haha :)

This channel will have millions of subscribers next year.

@user-cp1ku6kr6z

2 ай бұрын

Nope(

awesome video. Gratitude for doing this video.

The Roman army was one of the greatest and most influence civilization in the world and lasted for over 1,000 years.

I love the combination of animations, video and information in this video. Keep those movies coming!

I am so happy I found you via Invicta - this is amazing content and your equipment ist breathtaking - greetings from the 15th century.

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Great content, I find myself tuning out from many things these days. Being a solider and law enforcement for many years I see a lot of similarities.

Amazing video! The amount of efford in this video is amazing! Well done!

Great video and these reenactors look great too!! “Consilium” is also the Latin word for “plan” so it’s interesting to see that the word to describe a group of men who were responsible for creating a plan in battle became synonymous with the word “plan” its self .

@ImperiumRomanumYT

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting observation indeed. Thanks for that :)

@lessonslearned6760

2 жыл бұрын

@@ImperiumRomanumYT thank you and please keep making these awesome videos!!

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I love Roman history . This is well done. Keep up the good work and thank you

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I found this channel like 2 weeks ago and i think its amazing, i was here before it blows up! Cool video once again, good job guys!

@ImperiumRomanumYT

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

I'm convinced it is inevitable that this channel will absolutely blow up in the close future

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Can’t wait to watch later when I get home from school

I really really enjoy the fact you use live action footage. Please keep it up!

Another very well done ep boys cheers

If I had the internet as a kid this channel would have been on constantly. I was fascinated by the Romans and still am.

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Great video. I've had a keen interest in the Roman Empire (vs kingdom or republic) for many years. This video series may rekindle my interest. Thanks for this.

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A finely crafted video, as expected :) Glad to see you guys are picking up speed here!

@shanebraaten9553

2 жыл бұрын

Wyckid Badass 🤘🏻 Profile Pic... I have that same flag hanging on my wall right now... 💯👑

@ImperiumRomanumYT

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Eric!

Great content as always! Keep it up!

@ImperiumRomanumYT

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gaius!

Wow this channel is really something. Loving this content.

It's miraculous in a way that the Legions were so successful. I can understand the potential benefits of having a civilian in command of a Legion, but mostly I see drawbacks. Yet the Romans, with their incredible pragmatism and attention to detail, created a set of tactics, techniques, and equipment that was so resistant to stupidity or inexperience that someone had to be truly incompetent or arrogant to lose a legion. Crassus for example. But the idea that a civilian could, with little to no training, command one of these things and possibly win a battle is incredible to me. Julian comes to mind here. Turns out he had a natural aptitude for it but regardless the guy pretty much just read a couple of books then started slaying Germanic raiders, eventually becoming Emperor

@Jauhl1

Жыл бұрын

"Civilians" aren't really fair, serving as military tribune was standard in the Roman higher political career. Nothing was more valued for political advancement then military glory so naturally politicians prepared well . Politicians role was to lead, inspire, and cajole and manage people, you couldn't lead in Rome without engaging violence so the Romans assumed that a guy who were skilled at getting stuff done in the senate would to the same with soldiers on the battle field. It was often quite correct. And if there were deficiency there were always the professional core of the legion to back him up.

@stsk1061

7 ай бұрын

This video is quite wrong. Roman senators were the people most qualified to lead a legion. That's because a centurion never commanded more than a century. By comparison, an army commander (imperator) had to go through the positions of military tribune, quaestor and legate first. You could only be elected praetor at age 38, meaning that at that point, the candidate already had 20 years of military experience. Moreover, the system was meritocratic, because if you didn't perform well in battle, you were simply not being elected. Lastly, the distinction between a civilian and a soldier is a modern one. In the past, military command was one of the most important duties of a leader, whether he was a king or a consul.

Great start to your channel! Keep up the quality work

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I’ve also spent my time in antique history at my alma mater decades ago. Channels like this offer a lot of knowledge well displayed and structured. Excellent!

Another amazing vid keep up the good work heeren!

Your collaboration with Invicta brought me here. Keep up the good work and looking forward to more content and collaborations 👏❤🔥

Great vid, thanks. Having re-enactors with such great looking kit was a big plus.

This was very well presented. I enjoy this level of detail about Rome's military.

Another great movie about an interesting subject! Keep them coming!!

Excellent overview of the centurion!

Excellent, as always.

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Really looking forward to watching more of your videos 🙌 💯

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@ImperiumRomanumYT

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Shane, we appreciate comments like these a lot!

You guys are great, your videos are inciteful and the production value is superb keep it up.

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Thorough!!! With such quality presentation, easily got you a new subscriber!!

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amazing summary of the roman Centurion. I love roman history and you guys (through both explanation and demonstration) do am amazing job of bringing it to life. Well done. 10 out of 10

@ImperiumRomanumYT

6 ай бұрын

thanks a lot!

Great video. Thanks. Strength and Honor!

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A great video! These documentaries have me hooked! I would love to see a similar video on the roles of Optio :) Greetings from Finland