03-10-2014, 12:34 AM
Hello Evan. How are you? Nice to see you so accomplished over here!
Evan, I actually have the pdf of Terence Arnold Coello's work Unit Sizes in the Late Roman Army ; I would be more than happy to get it to you, but I remember procuring it from www.scribd.com some time ago. It's still there for downloading. They give you a free trial for a month, and if you want to stay on as a subscriber it's only $9 a month ($US). Make sure you search under 'documents, not 'books' (even though it's upwards of 190 pages).
Pat Southern's The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History and The Late Roman Army are rife with all the traditional sources.
Here's a sample for you from Coello, p. 103-104,
[indent]"...One of the first comprehensive attempts to use the Notitia details to calculate the size of the Roman Army and its individual units in c. AD 400 was that of Várady in 1961. His unit size assumptions were notably complicated: he put most legions at 1,000 but "riparian" legions at 3,000; cuneii at 1,200; auxilia palatina at 500; and all other formations at 300. This produced figures for the Eastern Army of 96,300 field army troops and 165,700 frontier soldiers (total = 262,000), and for the Western Army of 123,800 field army troops and 107,200 frontier soldiers (total [with certain other additions] = 262,000). These unconvincingly balanced totals put the whole army at 524,000.
A not dissimilar grand total with unit sizes in the same kind of area was adduced by Jones in 1964. His overall total was some 602,000 (plus 6,000 scholae), divided roughly 6:4 between the East and West (352,000: 250,000). The basis for multiplying up the Notitia lists used by Jones was that field army legions numbered 1,000 each and other field army units 500, while frontier formations were of three sizes - "old" legions at 3,000 each, the few military units at nominal size and other formations all 500 strong..."[/indent]
James K MacKinnon
Evan, I actually have the pdf of Terence Arnold Coello's work Unit Sizes in the Late Roman Army ; I would be more than happy to get it to you, but I remember procuring it from www.scribd.com some time ago. It's still there for downloading. They give you a free trial for a month, and if you want to stay on as a subscriber it's only $9 a month ($US). Make sure you search under 'documents, not 'books' (even though it's upwards of 190 pages).
Pat Southern's The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History and The Late Roman Army are rife with all the traditional sources.
Here's a sample for you from Coello, p. 103-104,
[indent]"...One of the first comprehensive attempts to use the Notitia details to calculate the size of the Roman Army and its individual units in c. AD 400 was that of Várady in 1961. His unit size assumptions were notably complicated: he put most legions at 1,000 but "riparian" legions at 3,000; cuneii at 1,200; auxilia palatina at 500; and all other formations at 300. This produced figures for the Eastern Army of 96,300 field army troops and 165,700 frontier soldiers (total = 262,000), and for the Western Army of 123,800 field army troops and 107,200 frontier soldiers (total [with certain other additions] = 262,000). These unconvincingly balanced totals put the whole army at 524,000.
A not dissimilar grand total with unit sizes in the same kind of area was adduced by Jones in 1964. His overall total was some 602,000 (plus 6,000 scholae), divided roughly 6:4 between the East and West (352,000: 250,000). The basis for multiplying up the Notitia lists used by Jones was that field army legions numbered 1,000 each and other field army units 500, while frontier formations were of three sizes - "old" legions at 3,000 each, the few military units at nominal size and other formations all 500 strong..."[/indent]
James K MacKinnon
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James K MacKinnon
James K MacKinnon
