03-28-2014, 11:29 AM
Quote:Ammianus and Vegetius both stated that the Legiones were supported by auxiliary troops, what do you think the Auxilia units were?
But the auxilia were regular infantry, and surely would have been included in the main figure for the army? Actually, I'd say the auxiliaries of any date would have been so included - they probably formed around 50% of earlier principiate forces after all.
There may have been other troops with the army though - various non-Roman allies. Tetrarchic formations often included large bodies of 'barbarians'...
However, army size estimates, particularly by historians centuries apart, tend to be notably inexact and often wildly different - we just don't know where the writers were getting their information from.
Nathan Ross