... Comitatenses The comitatenses were the fast - moving field division of the later Roman army . In the aftermath of the various foreign incursions and civil wars of the third century and tetrarchic period , the Roman army ...
... comitatenses and pseudocomitatenses . The comitatenses consisted of elements of cavalry and infantry stationed in the interior areas of the frontier provinces under the command of a comes . Service in them carried greater prestige and ...
... comitatenses were a substantial part of invasion armies of North Africa and Italy, a point to which we will return below.6 Le Bohec has raised questions about the term comitatenses in a careful study that revisits a much earlier paper ...
... comitatenses and the Palatini ( before 310 , for the comitatenses existed then , cp . C. I. L. 5565 ; palatini occurs first in a law of 365 A.D. , Cod . Theod . vii . 4 , 22 ) . Thus there were three great divisions of the army : 1 ...
... comitatenses and the Palatini ( before 310 , for the comitatenses existed then , cp . C. I. L. 5565 ; palatini occurs first in a law of 365 A.D. , Cod . Theod . vii . 4 , 22 ) . Thus there were three great divisions of the army : 1 ...
... comitatenses and the Palatini ( before 310 , for the comitatenses existed then , cp . C.I.L. 5565 ; palatini occurs first in a law of 365 A.D. , Cod . Theod . vii . 4 , 22 ) . Thus there were three great divisions of the army : 1 , ( a ) ...
... comitatenses, and garrison troops or limitanei;22 the comitatenses were commanded by emperors in person or magistri militum, whereas limitanei were under the control of co mites or duces; the individual units in the two categories used ...