Julian and the invasion of Persia

[Robert Vermaat]

you have both covered those and doubled the count!

My pleasure. It took me a few hours study though. :wink:

There's probably a dozen more units that we can 'implicate', since they were included in (what Hoffmann sees as) the big 'partition' of the Roman Field army units in the summer of 364 at Naissus, when Valens and Valentinianus split most units into seniores and iuniores. We can find several units that were not present, and therefore not partitioned (units in Africa, Gaul, Spain, Britain), or partitioned later. Some unit were only created as iuniores resp. seniores, but also later. Some cavlry units, esp. the armoured cavalry, may not have been split up at all.

There are several units that almost surely went with Julian from Gaul, but since they are not mentioned anywhere, we simply can't be sure if they went back to Gaul, remained in Europe or indeed went to Persia.