The original command structure of the Late Roman army, with a separate magister equitum and a magister peditum in place of the later overall magister militum in the command structure of the army of the Western Roman EmpireThe high command structure of the West Roman army c. 410–425, based on the Notitia Dignitatum
Magister militum (Latin for "master of soldiers"; pl.: magistri militum) was a top-level military command used in the later Roman Empire, dating from the reign of Constantine the Great. The term referred to the senior military officer (equivalent to a war theatre commander, the emperor remaining the supreme commander) of the empire. In Greek sources, the term is translated either as strategos or as stratelates.
Magistermilitum (Latin for "master of soldiers"; pl.: magistri militum) was a top-level military command used in the later Roman Empire, dating from...
commanded by a magistermilitum, who also reported direct to the emperor. The 13 eastern border duces reported to the magistermilitum of their diocese:...
Magister degree, an academic degree Magister equitum, or Master of the Horse Magistermilitum, a master of the soldiers Magister officiorum (master of offices)...
officers, Aetius (magistermilitum in Gaul), Count Boniface (governor in the Diocese of Africa), and Flavius Felix (magistermilitum praesentalis in Italy)...
Visigothic foederati under Alaric, magistermilitum in Illyricum, rebelled in 395. Gildo, the Comes Africae and Magister utriusque militiae per Africam,...
the imperial throne while still a minor by his father Orestes, the magistermilitum, for whom he served as little more than a figurehead. After a rule...
with his son Arcadius. On 22 August at the behest of the magistermilitum Arbogast, a magister scrinii and vir clarissimus, Eugenius, was acclaimed augustus...
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