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    Domesticorum” also known as, “Commander of the Protectores Domestici,” and “Comes rei Militaris” or General. The domestici rose to prominence during the Crisis...
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    known as protectores domestici and organised in four scholae under a comes domesticorum. After a few years' service in the corps, a protector would normally...
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    established was in 282 when the Emperor Carus made him commander of the Protectores domestici, the elite cavalry force directly attached to the Imperial household...
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  • (miles quondam et graecus), and his enrollment among the elite protectores domestici (household guards) shows that he was of middle class or higher birth...
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    a military campaign against the Goths. Zeno, as a member of the protectores domestici, did not take part in the disastrous expedition against the Vandals...
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    service of the imperial court, enrolled in the military unit of the Protectores Domestici and then elevated to the position of tribunus praetorianus partis...
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  • Constantius II. Previously he was a commander of the household troops (protectores domestici) under Gallus Caesar, but he arrested Gallus under the instruction...
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    Christian (specifically a Homoean). In adulthood, Valens served in the protectores domestici under the emperors Julian and Jovian. According to the 5th-century...
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  • the Byzantine Empire. The domestikoi trace their ancestry to the protectores domestici guard unit of the Late Roman army, established in the late 3rd century...
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    Scholae Palatinae units, which were more properly known as the Schola Protectores Domestici and the "Protective Association of the Royal Escort" (also called...
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