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...

active between the 4th and the 5th century. There was also a legio comitatensis with the same name. The Regii had its main period of action in the mid-4th...

central field army under the emperor's direct control, known as the comitatensis palatina or praesentalis, and several regional field armies. Historians...