Notitia Dignitatum is quite a large list. Using some Ms Office tricks
I counted 94 occurences of "seniores" for the Western half and only 23 such occurences for the Eastern half.
It would be interesting to know how many soldiers are there, because each body may have a different size.
After reading a summary compiled by others (Philippe Le Maitre, Pierre Riche, 1953-1996) ND accounts forabout 500,000 total number of soldiers. Yet this summary claims some inbalance and that many of these army bodies are only on paper. For instance, it is claimed that between Jura mountains and Atlantic there are only 17,000 soldiers and that for Britannia, Spain and Africa only 45,000 soldiers are ready to defend them.
Edited by Chilbudios - 23-May-2006 at 08:23