contubernalis

He had been an inexperienced and sickly contubernalis privileged to serve with the greatest Roman who ever lived.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

He had been an inexperienced and sickly contubernalis privileged to serve with the greatest Roman who ever lived.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Almost sixteen and on the verge of official manhood, Gaius Scribonius Curio was due to leave the nursery and become a contubernalis.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Almost sixteen and on the verge of official manhood, Gaius Scribonius Curio was due to leave the nursery and become a contubernalis.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Now nineteen years old, he had traveled out the year before to join his father's staff as a contubernalis, very pleased that-as his own father had done before him-he could serve his military training under his father.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Provided his purse is fat enough, even a contubernalis can live like a king if he wants.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

“My brother Caepio would have come,” said young Cato in his harsh and unmelodic voice, “except that he's out of Rome with Catulus's army-a contubernalis, if you know that term.”

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

But between my son's death and the case of Sextus Roscius of Ameria, I saw him only as a contubernalis on my staff in Campania during the Italian War.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

When he was my contubernalis he acted as my secretary.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

But when I was just a bit older than my son is now, I was serving as a contubernalis with Lucius Cinna, Publius Lupus, my cousin Lucius Lucilius, and my good friend Gnaeus Octavius Ruso here.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991