Promotion in the field

[Robert Vermaat]

Thanks Nathan!

Presumably quite a lavish ceremony, whatever the actual arrangements may have been. It probably varied between emperors though - Julian, who Ammianus describes as giving traditional dona in Persia, may have been rather more relaxed about personal contact with his men, since he was consciously trying to revive 'ancient' practices...

Yes, lavish ceremony becomes ever more THE thing in Late Antiquity. Julian was not only interested in reviving ancient custom, he was also a general in the field, and not used to court ceremony at all.