Auxilia Palatina

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Also, I agree that Palantines had multiple functions - they were like multirole fighters. They could stand ground as heavy infantry, but also act as skirmishers.

The whole army, but at least the comitatenses could do this. This was the basis of the late roman army: flexibility under any circumstances.

My point exactly (I didn't mention the comitatenses because we weren't talking about them)

Heck even the limitanei could. Aetius' army was probably mostly pseudocomitatenses and a few units of Palatinae (not counting whatver private retainer he had).

We have many records of Limitanei being used as pseudocomitatenses I believe (although I'd have to look it up).