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Pseudocomitatenses

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Pseudocomitatenses were a class of regiment in the Late Roman army. Although they were attached to the comitatus (higher-grade mobile armies), they enjoyed lower status and pay to the comitatenses, the regular regiments of the comitatus. This is because their regiments had originally been classified as lower-grade limitanei ("border troops"), but at some point attached to a comitatus for a particular campaign and subsequently retained long-term. There is indication that at least some of the Pseudocomitatenses were former auxiliary cohorts.[1]


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  1. ^ The Army Reforms of Diocletian and Constantine and Their Modifications up to the Time of the Notitia Dignitatum, Page 5