The two Vegetii

[Nathan Ross]

I'm not aware of Aetius holding the post of Comes Sacri Stabuli.

Yes, it was the other Flavius Aetius that Scharf was talking about - the eastern one. My mistake! (then again, I suspect that the 'cura palatii' - did we ever work out the source for that? - might have been something like a synonym for this position...)

Scharf's full article is here:

Thanks! Almost all the names listed in the prosopography at the end appear to have military connections - the (eastern) Aetius was also comes domesticorum, which was at least para-military- except Vegetius, who appears on the list without a supporting source. So I don't think we can regard the comes stabuli as a civilian role, and it doesn't fit Vegetius.