Questions about Roman army service c. 395 A.D.

[Urselius]

Hugh Elton's study of records of soldier's names suggests that in the field army from 350-500 AD other ranks included 16 definitely Roman, 94 probably Roman, 6 definitely barbarian and 21 probably barbarian soldiers. This is the only valid method I have come across of estimating barbarisation in the late army. As Elton rationalises, any soldier of more remote barbarian ancestry given a Roman name will have been so thoroughly Romanised as to make his origins immaterial.