02-21-2014, 09:45 AM
Quote:Frank post=351283 Wrote:Old-style legions could also have both the ordinarius and centenarius, it seems:Robert Vermaat post=351281 Wrote: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?
D(is) M(anibus) / b(ene) m(erentibus) Castae quae vixit an(num) I d(ies) V et / Reginae quae vixit / ann(os) VII mens(es) V dies / XVIII filiabus dul/cissimis Val(erius) Castus / centur(io) ord(inarius) leg(ionis) I Iov(iae) / Scyt(hicae) una cum Val(erio) / Valeriano centen(ario) so/cero suo posuit (AE 1989, 00641, from Moesia).
Apologies people for this misunderstanding, obviously my memory failed me. I re-read the article and Rance proposed that the distinction between older-style units and new-style units was not centurio-ordinarius but centurio-centenarius: "The only titles attested in both the old and new hierarchies are tribunus, vicarius, primicerius and campidoctor."(p. 397).
Ordinarius was a synonym for centurion which became more fequently during the Late Roman period. So ordinarii are associated with old-style legions. My bad.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)