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Equites cataphractarii, or
simply cataphractarii, were the most
heavily armoured type of
Roman cavalry in the
Imperial Roman army and Late
Roman army....
- tongue,
always bore the
Latinized variant of the
original Gr**** name,
cataphractarii. The cataphract-like
cavalry stationed in the
Eastern Roman Empire had...
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included a
force of
heavily armoured cavalry,
called clibanarii or
cataphractarii in the
ancient sources. The
Maxentian cataphracts were
drawn up for...
- new ones,
continued in the 2nd-century auxilia.
Equites cataphractarii, or
simply cataphractarii for short, were the
heavily armoured cavalry of the Roman...
- CE by the military. Ammi**** also
describes Roman cavalry (probably
cataphractarii or clibanarii) on
parade in 350 CE as
having "...laminarum
circuli tenues...
- escort,
Constantius provided Julian with 200 scholares, a
regiment of
cataphractarii (heavily
armoured cavalry), and some
mounted archers (in
total 360 men)...
- 37–38. ISBN 1-85532-513-6. Negin, Nick (2018).
Roman heavy Cavalry (1)
Cataphractarii & Clibanarii, 1st
Century BC–5th
Century AD.
Bloomsbury USA. p. 6....
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borrowed by the
Romans (the
Latin variant in the
Roman Empire being Cataphractarii) and
until the
Middle Ages in Europe,
continued to be used to designate...
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Andrei (1998). "Sarmatian
Cataphracts as
Prototypes for
Roman Equites Cataphractarii".
Journal of
Roman Military Equipment Studies. 9: 68–72. Negin, Andrei;...
- skirmishing. In the
field armies there was a
component of some 15% of
cataphractarii or clibanarii,
heavily armoured cavalry who used
shock tactics. The...
