Rome\'s most able general?

[Robert Vermaat]

I thought you would have guessed...........patience!!!

I may have, something beginning with A I think - but I'll wait...

Meanwhile, is there no Late Roman General that fits the bill of 'most able', in your view? Belisarius was looking like a candidate there...until you decided he had 'feet of clay'.........

There might be, but to call him 'most able' would be presumptious. After all, Victoria's question was about the whole of the Roman period - I might go for an earlier generel instead.

The odds were so much different for several periods - did Roman generals who could wield those mighty legions of Hadrian's day, actually have it easier than those generals who fought from the small city in the early days, or those with mercenary armies in the latter days of the West?
And, does that make them lesser generals?