comitatenses
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9 sectionsContents
- Organization
- Command structure
- Tactics and usage
- Terminology
- List of ''comitatenses'' units
- Under the Western ''magister peditum''
- Under the ''Magister Militum per Orientem''
- Under the ''Magister Militum per Thracias''
- References
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The comitatenses and later the palatini were the units of the field armies of the late Roman Empire. They were the soldiers that replaced the legionaries, who had formed the backbone of the Roman military since the late republic.