Auxiliary standards

[Robert Vermaat]

Hi Adrian,

I think we're on fairly solid ground by assuming that the units Ammianus mentions are the Seniores rather than the Iuniores, he tends only to mention the Seniores units in his works, or Palatine ones, Scholae units etc.

I doubt that these units were then even split up into seniores and iuniores yet.

We know from Vegetius that Legiones may well have had the usual standards from the earlier imperial period, plus a draco standard. Not entirely clear as to the what the auxilia would have had but I'm willing to state that they would have had a vexillia standard plus a draco for each unit.

Agreed.

The passage in question states that both units shared a single standard, and that this standard was recovered at some later stage after what appears to be a number of battles.

We've discussed this before. Although they shared a standard, they may well have had a standard for their own unit as well.