04-16-2015, 05:05 PM
Nathan, I may be mistaking the C list here (the Notitia) but it is a register of grades, each grade's assigned annona, and the number of those grades in the field army legion as determined by Anastasius after advice from his Magister Officiorum. Both A, B, and the C inscriptions were erected in response to the soldiers' complaints about corruption.
The number of 1245 only tallies up the total of grades within the ranks. It confirms that total so that corruption can be halted. What is missing is the numbers of ungraded men - the normal pedites - who would have no need of a list. I suspect as you do that Fatih may well be extrapolating a total provisonal figure based on the grade structure.
The number of 1245 only tallies up the total of grades within the ranks. It confirms that total so that corruption can be halted. What is missing is the numbers of ungraded men - the normal pedites - who would have no need of a list. I suspect as you do that Fatih may well be extrapolating a total provisonal figure based on the grade structure.
Francis Hagan
The Barcarii
The Barcarii
