05-03-2018, 10:00 AM
(05-03-2018, 09:44 AM)Robert Vermaat Wrote: Hoffmann dates Concordia to the 6 months after Frigidus
Thanks Robert! Does he give any particular reason for the estimated date, do you know?
Of the three possible dates (for the one dated inscription!) it seems the least likely - a western soldier dating his death by the eastern consuls might be acceptable after the battle I suppose, but also Theodosius and Stilicho were in Milan by late 394-Jan 395, and presumably their comitatus field army would have gone with them. Not exactly critical, but it weighs in the balance...
(I realise that this would make it perhaps less likely that the six auxilia units I mentioned in my original post were likely to be where the ND says they were in c.410 - but they might still have been kept together as a sort of 'battle group', wherever they had ended up!)
Nathan Ross