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The Notitia Dignitatum – Dating and Survival

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J.C. Mann
J.C. Mann
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Britannia , Volume 22 , November 1991 , pp. 215 - 219
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Copyright © J.C. Mann 1991. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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38 Mitteilungen des Instituts für osterreichische Geschichtsforschung xc (1982). 339–46Google Scholar.

39 For all prosopographical details, reference is made to PLRE.

40 A.H.M. Jones. The Later Roman Empire (1964), Appendix II (Vol. III. pp. 347-80).

41 idem.

42 The first holder of the post may have been Abundantius. But Butherichus, the commander in Illyricum in 390, may possibly have had the rank of magister militum. If so, then the post was created a little earlier.

43 Claudian, Epithalamium dicta Palladio, 83-91. The holder of the post in 399 appears as Anonymous 34 in PLRE.

44 Cod. Theod. I. vii. 3.

45 Mann, J.C. in Goodburn, R. and Bartholomew, P. (eds), Aspects of the Notitia Dignitatum BAR Supp. Ser. 15 (1976), 7Google Scholar. If Miller, M. (Britannia vi (1975). 141–6 at 144) is correct in dating Stilicho's work in Britain to A.D. 395, then this could be the date of creation of the post of comes Britanniae, with Italiae and Argentoratensis following shortly afterwardsCrossRefGoogle Scholar.

46 cf. Jones, op. cit. (note 40), 351.