03-27-2014, 09:53 PM
Only Ammonios and some other name that is lost are categorized as cataphractarii, while Peteesis is called a dekadarchos, Sarapion a summos and Isidoros a munificas. All these are enlisted in the eile second Herculia of the dromedarii under eparchos Eudaemon. I did not mention these, because, apart from the dekadarchos, the rest seem to be administrative offices.
Peteesios is mentioned twice, once only as a dekadarchos and another (2.7 or 2.174, if the latter is indeed the number of the line...) as a (dekadarchos) opiniator.
The opiniatores are (or seem to be), a body of men within a unit that are responsible for bringing in the pay to the unit. They often appear in the plural in the text and are given military offices which would either make them a sub-unit or, to me more probable at the moment, they are mentioned with both their military rank and the fact that they are "of the opiniatores". So a signifer of the opiniatores, may mean that the person in question was a signifer for the said unit and one of its opiniatores. I do not think that it would mean that the opiniatores had their own signifer...
Peteesios is mentioned twice, once only as a dekadarchos and another (2.7 or 2.174, if the latter is indeed the number of the line...) as a (dekadarchos) opiniator.
The opiniatores are (or seem to be), a body of men within a unit that are responsible for bringing in the pay to the unit. They often appear in the plural in the text and are given military offices which would either make them a sub-unit or, to me more probable at the moment, they are mentioned with both their military rank and the fact that they are "of the opiniatores". So a signifer of the opiniatores, may mean that the person in question was a signifer for the said unit and one of its opiniatores. I do not think that it would mean that the opiniatores had their own signifer...
