campidoctores
Discit ab hirsuta, a sene Magistro. Capella, Campidoctore.Eucherius Lugd. Episc. in Actis SS. Agaunensium :
Qui cum Exuperio (ut in exercitu appellant) Campidoctore, etc.Petrus Diac. lib. 4. Chronici Casini cap. 118 :
Adveniente autem Brunone Campidoctore Imperatoris cum exercitu ingressus est Monasterium.Adde cap. 124.
Campidoctorummeminerunt Vegetius, lib. 1. cap. 3. et Ammianus lib. 15. ubi consulendi præterea Lindenbrogius et Valesius ad eumdem Ammian. Casaubonus ad Theophrasti Characteres pag. 17. Scaliger ad lib. 4. Manilii, et Salmasius
Campiductor, id est, Pugil, sive ductor, vel Capitaneus.Vita S. Erminoldi Abb. lib. 1. cap. 9.
Unus talium(pravorum hominum)
Campiductor infelix, etc. Historia Episcopor. Frisingensium sub ann. 1381. in Metropoli Salisburgensi :
Cum enim armata manu versus Frisingham properaret, suis quatuor Campiductoribus videbatur, quod eorum hastæ arderent.Palladius in Vita Chrysostomi :
Ἐπισκόπων ἀυτά κατασκευαζόντων, οἲ οὐκ ἠσχύνοντο Καμπιδούκτορας ἀντὶ τῶν διακόνων προηγουμένους ἔχοντες,pag. 9. Edit. V. Cl. ac doctissimi Emerici Bigotii. Vide Salmasium ad Lamprid.
CAMPIDOCTORES
CAMPIDOCTO´RESofficers 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.)
[W.S]Campidoctōres
Persons who, like the modern drill-sergeant, taught Roman soldiers their exercises. In the times of the Republic this duty was discharged by a centurion, or a veteran soldier of merit and distinction. See Plin. Paneg. 13.