ABSTRACT
During the first and second centuries in Britain, the head of both military and civilian administrations was the governor, who was personally appointed by the emperor. The command of a legion would normally follow the praetorship and at least two governors of Britain, Petillius Cerealis and Julius Agricola, held legionary commands in the province they were later to govern. Other government officials of junior status were stationed at various places in the province, mostly engaged in police duties, or in supervising the transport of army supplies. Among professional soldiers the army obviously possessed its own promotional ladder, although as we have already seen, the higher officers had their careers linked with the civilian administration. Consequently, in the Roman army very great reliance was placed in the field on the centurions, one to each of the sixty centuries into which the legion was divided. Tacitus mentioned as having taken part in the civil war of AD 69.
