Late Roman Unit Sizes

[Nathan Ross]

the Chronography of 354... lynched the Romans of the soldiers of Moesia and 6,000 Roman men were killed by the soldiers

Oh yes, I love that chronicle - it's full of bizarre random details!

In this case, it's hard to tell who's being killed by whom, but it's possibly a garbled reference to the old 'Theban legion' again, which as we know has various estimated sizes, often of around 6000 or so.

But we also know that real late Roman legions could not have been 6000 men strong, or the army would have contained over three quarters of a million men in the legions alone.