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Late Roman Army Grade/Rank List under Anastasius
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Hi Francis,

Very interesting, and thank you very much for bringing to our attention.
Looking at the list it indeed shows similarities with the grades mentioned by Vegetius. It is immediately clear that this is not a list of ranks, but one of grades with a few actual ranks inbetween - many grades and most ranks are missing, though. It's clearly a pay scale. Do you perhaps have the amounts of annonae corresponding to each grade? It would be very interesting to compare this late 5th c. list with the other lists we know, that of Hironymus ((Jerome, Contra Johannem Hierosolymilanum episcopum 19, writing ca. 386-7) and the edict of Justinian (Justinian Code, I.27) of 534.

The list is of the grades on the lower end of the scale: a tribunus command a new-style 'legion'of perhaps a 1000 men, but an ordinarius is already down to 80 men (new-style centurio), but the bulk of these titles seem to be soldiers or lower nco-s with a higher pay due to some specialist function or task.

My article about Late Roman ranks and grades: http://www.fectio.org.uk/articles/ranks.htm
Robert Vermaat
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Re: Late Roman Army Grade/Rank List under Anastasius - by Robert Vermaat - 08-17-2011, 06:28 PM

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