Julian and the invasion of Persia

[Mithras]

I will leave out the Saracens for now, from the memory of my last reading of AM, they joined the campaign after Julianus crossed the Euphrates.

Zianni being described as a legion does of course mean that it is a limitanei regiment. Oh well! It will have to remain 'unattributed' and 'without a home' until archaeology one day unearths a legionary tile stamp at some remote, long forgotten desert outpost!

I will look into the Laeti ...

We have to add that arab unit of Saracens who fought for Iulianus, whose noblesmen submitted themselves and recognizing him as only Imperator too (XXIII 3,8 and 5,1 plus XXIV 1,10), then they passed to the Persians for money matter. Maybe about 500 horsemen...

And don't forget those units of young Laeti, possibly the same Iulianus as Caesar offered to Costantius for the persian campaign...

The Zianni were called "legion" by Ammianus, like the Primani, or the Regii.