Legionary Officers and NCOs - Late Roman Army (284 - 565 AD)

[Urselius]

In the late army the old legions of 6,000, it seems, were broken up into detachments, but each detachment retained the name of the parent legion. For example the Legio Quinta Macedonica was, simultaneously, in four different stations in Dacia Ripensis and also at Memphis in Egypt. What isn't obvious is whether the detachments, when within the same province, retained any overall command structure or whether they merely came under the control of the local Dux. Surely some level of interaction remained between the disjecta membra of the old legions.