Numerus (Roman military unit)
Template:Italic title Template:Redirect-distinguish Template:Refimprove A numerus (Template:Lit, plural numeri) was a unit of the Roman army.[1]
In the Imperial Roman army (27 BC – 476 AD), it referred to units of barbarian allies who were not integrated into the regular army structure of legions and auxilia. Such units were of undetermined strength and their organisation and equipment probably varied according to the unit's ethnic origin. The term was also applied to quasi-permanent detachments of regular army units.[2]
In the Late Roman army (284 – 476), a numerus was a regular infantry unit of the limitanei, or border forces, believed to have been c. 300 strong.
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Further reading
- Callies, Horst (1964). "Die fremden Truppen im römischen Heer des Prinzipats und die sogenannten nationalen Numeri" [The foreign troops in the Roman army of the Principate and the so-called national numeri]. Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission 45, pp. 130–227.