Late Roman Unit Sizes

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Umm... Auxiliaries? This is the 4th century, not the 1st.

Evan, why are you querying this? Ammianus and Vegetius both stated that the Legiones were supported by auxiliary troops, what do you think the Auxilia units were?

Well they weren't Auxiliaries. Maybe another term for Foederati?

Of course they were auxiliaries, thats why those ancient authors called them as such! Apart from the Auxilia Palatina units there were Auxilia comitatensis and Auxilia Limitanae units as well. And Ammianus records a number of instances where the Romans in the 4th century recruited from the 'barbarian' tribes and when they did so he used terms such as 'Scythian auxiliaries', or 'foreign auxiliaries', not Foederati. Constantine I, Licinius, Magnetius, Constantius II, Julian, Procopius, Valentinian I, Valens, Gratian and Theodosius I all recruited troops from the tribes north of the Rhine and Danube and they were always described as 'auxiliaries'.