• infantry, and the psiloi were the light infantry. Comitatenses regiments consisted of 1,024 soldiers. Comitatenses legions could consist of 6,000 to 7,000 soldiers...
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  • palatini and comitatenses, eventually became the basis of the Eastern themes. The Western field armies, including the palatini and comitatenses, either disintegrated...
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    vexillationes palatini and vex. comitatenses; infantry units as either legiones palatini, auxilia palatini, leg. comitatenses, and pseudocomitatenses. Auxilia...
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    the guard (excubitores and scholae), the field armies (palatini and comitatenses) or the border armies (limitanei). The strength of these units is very...
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    commanded by the provincial governors. From the 3rd century, units of comitatenses, limitanei and liburnaria (marines) came under the command of two generals:[citation...
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  • they acted as field commanders. While the Roman comitatensis (plural: comitatenses) is sometimes translated as "field army", it may also be translated as...
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  • and lower-paid than the comitatenses and palatīnī, and the distinction in role and status between scholae, palatini, comitatenses, and limitanei had largely...
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  • Constantine II. In addition to the elite palatini, other legions called comitatenses and pseudocomitatenses, along with the auxilia palatina, provided the...
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  • higher-status than the older cohortes and alae which they had replaced. The comitatenses and the palatini were central field armies, usually stationed in the...
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    they were directly in command of the local mobile field army of the comitatenses, which acted as a rapid reaction force. Other magistri remained at the...
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