Campidoctores
Campidoctores officers who taught soldiers their drill and exercises (Veget. 1.13, 2.23, 3.6, 8, 26: Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 53; Atom. xv, 3.10; Orelli, Inscr, 1790, 3495). In the times of the republic this duty was discharged by a centurion, or veteran soldier of merit and distinction. (Cf. Plin. Pan. 13.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.