12-02-2005, 12:46 PM
Quote:It is well known that on several occasions soldiers of the fleets were transferred en bloc to the legions. The Legiones Adiutrices are of course best known. Does anyone know of parralells with auxiliaries?
I guess that would be the mass promotion of limitanei (static border troops) to the comitatenses (mobile field army) during the 4th and 5th century.
To me, that's one of the clearest signs that the quality difference between these troops types, if extisting at all, was very small.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
