10-03-2016, 12:06 AM
(10-02-2016, 07:55 PM)Renatus Wrote: I am even doubtful about translating tagmata as 'legions'... Sozomen may have simply replaced one generic term with another.
Ah, good point! However, he does seem to be implying that a tagma which had previously been called something else was later known as an arithmos...
Since the auxilia units were apparently always called numeri (or so the earliest epigraphic references to them would seem to suggest), it's perhaps more likely that he's talking about the legions (or legion detachments) here.
But you're quite right, it is all a little hazy...
Nathan Ross
