legate

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Though its organization changed over time, this military unit consisted of about five thousand soldiers and was commanded by a legate.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

No kings, no emperor, some middlingly important nobles and one papal legate led the expedition.

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2022

Except for his time as legate, and for an ongoing feud with a notorious scoundrel named Regulus, the younger Pliny did not lead an especially eventful life.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2019

In the summer of 1497, he was a 22-year-old cardinal, sent as papal legate by his father, Pope Alexander VI, to crown the king of Naples and broker a royal marriage for his sister, Lucrezia.

From The Guardian • May 17, 2013

When Locri was destroyed by one of his legates, the Locrians were not avenged by him, nor was the arrogance of that legate corrected, all this arising from his easygoing nature.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli