Late Roman Unit Sizes

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Right, your text says Myriades, ergo there is no way in hell we can use this passage from Zozimus as a source.

Ridley has an endnote on this as follows:

'The forty thousand men in the MS should obviously be emended, since Soz. 9.8 gives 4,000 (6 arithmoi).'

I read Sozomen, how could I have missed that?!

I'll get the exact text in a few minutes, I have it with me.

6 Arithmoi numbering 4000 would make sense, especially considering the Arithmoi was a term for Numerus.

The affairs of Honorius were reduced to so critical a condition, that ships were kept in readiness to convey him, if it were necessary, to his nephew, when an army of four thousand men which had started from the west arrived unexpectedly during the night at Ravenna; Honorius caused the walls of the city to be guarded by this reinforcement, for he distrusted the native troops as inclined to treachery.

Also, isn't there a text that mentions Diocletian's raising of the Herculani and Iovani in the 280's or 290s'?