Vegetius legion description (from the spatha topic)

[Paulus Claudius Damianus]

Sorry Mitrhra, my English is very bad but you perfectly understood the contents of my hypotheses.

I do not ignore ancient sources quoted by Vegetius. He names the authors to whom he use himself but a fine analysis of the Roman texts purely late century (IVe-Ve) can only confirm that Végéce adapt his papers to the military rank of his time and not that of the Republic (for exemple). The same report can be made at the level of expression and of the vocabulary employed to define the auxiliary/ foederati in Vegetius and late roman authors corpus.

Sure for the vegetius battle order...
Sure for the comprhénsion of the Principes and the Hastati...
Triari raises problem because if végèce quote them, the function re-appears clearly only in the role that play the reserves without that triari is quoted. Also we do not find any more triari in the texts of the IVth century.