02-20-2014, 01:47 PM
Quote:Centurions are found in (old-style) limitanei units, ordinarii are found in (new-style) comitatenses and auxilia palatini units.
Did you say, that there was no ordinarius in the units of the limitanei? Magister Flavius wrote (see above), that the limitanei had both: normal centurions and ordinarii.
And I fully agree, that not every military term we know of, has to be a rank. Thats why I speculated, that the ordinarius like the primi ordinis were probably a rank-group like field-grade-officer in modern armies. Same with the famous ducenarius and other late roman "ranks".
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