The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army

by George Leonard Cheesman

[419] Herodian, vii. 1, 9.

[420] Codex Theodosianus vii. 22, Esp. 22. 9, issued in 380: ‘Sciantque veterani liberos suos quos militaribus aptos muneribus insitum robur ostendat, aut offerendos esse militiae aut obnoxios nostrae legis laqueis iam futuros.’

[421] Ammianus served in his youth in the Protectores Domestici, was on the staff of Ursicinus in the Persian War of Constantius, and survived, and has given us a brilliant description of, the siege of Amida in 359.

[422] Not. Dign. Or. ix. 29. Not. Dign. Occ. vii. 24, 74, 78.

[423] Not. Dign. Occ. vii. 163.

[424] Not. Dign. Occ. vii. 183.

[425] Not. Dign. Or. xxviii and xxxi.

[426] Not. Dign. Or. xxxii.

[427] For traces of a ‘nationalist’ feeling in the Egyptian army at the end of the fourth century see my remarks in Karanóg. (See above, [p. 115].)

[428] Not. Dign. Occ. xiii. 46-63. There are also a few Sarmatae in Gaul.