08-05-2013, 03:05 PM
'Thus, back on topic, and using the different terms - I see the limitanei legions (old style) on the frontiers (stripped of their cavalry elements), probably under-strength in most cases, many having provided a permanent detachment of a pair of cohorts to form a Comitatenses Legio of 1,000 strong (in 2 x 6 centuries and thus perhaps detailed as 1,200 strong); perhaps retaining a link to those detachments still and occasionally providing additional detachments (Pseudo-Comitatenses), but those legio's would be kept closer to strength. '
Is there not a tombstone that states the infantryman it belongs to was a member of the Xth cohort of his Legion, and isn't that tombstone dated to the 4th Century? If so that would provide evidence of at least some Legiones retaining the old 10 cohort structure, meaning that the Legiones were in fact 2000 men strong in the Late Empire after the Diocletianic reforms as I have previously stated.
Is there not a tombstone that states the infantryman it belongs to was a member of the Xth cohort of his Legion, and isn't that tombstone dated to the 4th Century? If so that would provide evidence of at least some Legiones retaining the old 10 cohort structure, meaning that the Legiones were in fact 2000 men strong in the Late Empire after the Diocletianic reforms as I have previously stated.
Adrian Coombs-Hoar