- The
comitatenses and
later the
palatini were the
units of the
field armies of the late
Roman Empire. They were the
soldiers that
replaced the legionaries...
- (members of the
elite cavalry regiments called the scholae), but
above the
comitatenses (regiments of the
regional comitatus) and the
limitanei (border troops)...
- century,
following Justinian I's wars,
seven mobile field armies called comitatenses,
numbering around 150,000 troops, were deplo****
around the empire; they...
-
Constantine II. In
addition to the
elite palatini,
other legions called comitatenses and pseudocomitatenses,
along with the
auxilia palatina,
provided the...
- the
guard (excubitores and scholae), the
field armies (palatini and
comitatenses) or the
border armies (limitanei). The
strength of
these units is very...
-
vexillationes palatini and vex.
comitatenses;
infantry units as
either legiones palatini,
auxilia palatini, leg.
comitatenses, and pseudocomitatenses. Auxilia...
- the
fixed bases on the border,
Gallienus created mobile forces (the
comitatenses, or
field armies) and
stationed them
behind and at some
distance from...
- 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...
-
thousand years. The
Roman army was
reorganised to
consist of
mobile units (
comitatenses),
often around the Emperor, to
serve on
campaigns against external enemies...
-
commanded by the
provincial governors. From the 3rd century,
units of
comitatenses,
limitanei and
liburnaria (marines) came
under the
command of two generals:[citation...
