General is a high military rank, in most nations the highest rank, although some nations refer to high-ranking generals as marshals. The title general is used by land and sometimes air forces. In the navies of the world, the rank of full admiral is equivalent.
... Christian and possibly bishop of Croton. In approximately 580, he wrote "De origine actibusque Getarum[?]" (The origin and deeds of the Goths), "De breviatione chronicorum" ...