Lieutenant generals outranked major generals and all other lesser officers.
Major generals outranked brigadiers and all other lesser officers.
They had to be very able technically, be close-mouthed, keep a low profile, and also be diplomatic enough to manage commanders who far outranked them.
Being of senatorial rank, his immediate superior was the "dux" (provincial governor), and he outranked all military tribunes.
Technically they outranked all other ordinary magistrates (including consuls and praetors).
A specific exception was made for bearers of the title of duke who, regardless of their origin, outranked all other nobles.
Members of these clans outranked other noble clans.
Today he is a pale reflection of that, outranked on one side by the shop steward and on the other by the personnel officer.
