The Whole North Into Gaul

[Nathan Ross]

Are you sure? They are genitive case, aren't they?

That's what I thought. The form Adiutricis used in the ND surely refers to a subgroup of the Adiutrix legion - the legion name itself would still be I Adiutrix?

(Incidentally, I would still be wary of using the mention of this legion in the Theodosian Code as evidence for their continued existence as a military unit - we know from John Lydus and others that civil servants were 'enrolled' in I Adiutrix as an administrative fiction, long after the legion itself had ceased to exist.)

I'd also agree that you need some supporting sources - whatever the JLE seems to be saying, they surely don't mean that you can only refer to the original source. That leaves you with only your own unsupported opinion on a highly complex ancient text...

Are there other studies of the Vita you could draw on, or studies of the military situation in this period? Or even investigations of the potential hazards of using hagiography as a primary source? If you could provide a critical context for your argument then the point you are making would be clearer - are you disputing previous studies, or building upon them? How does what you are saying differ from what others might have said? And so on. All critical writing is a conversation, both with the subject and with those (often very many) others who have studied it previously.