Re Reenactors with Shield Designs from the Notitia

[Robert Vermaat]

Were the old-style cohorts and alae still called auxilia, or was the term exclusively used for the palatine units? There's a rescript from Diocletian confiming that service in 'a cohort' was still inferior to and paid less than service in a legion, so the old distinction was still in force then. When did it change? When did these 'barbarian' numeri gain the title auxilia palatina anyway?

(sorry, bit of a different question I know!)

Yeah, we're digressing again..

I'm not sure. Such old titles might have stuck of course, even though the auxilia as an army class had long gone, even though we never read about any official disbanding of it. I'm also not sure how to interpret that rescript. Diocletian raised many 'legions', all new-style army, and all paying more than the old style units, including the old style legions. Later we get the pay differences between limitanei, comitatenses and palatini, maybe there was indeed a further difference within the limitanei as well?