The Late Roman epitaphs from Concordia and the problem of division the regular units of Roman army between West and East Roman Empire in 395-408 A. D. (to the question about the some aspects of the seniores - iuniores’ theory in the Late Roman army)
The present paper deals with the transfer of some East Roman military units from Constantinople to the Northern Italy during 394-396 A. D. The initiator of this reform was the West Roman magister militum (master of soldiers) Stilicho, who strived for reinforcement of his army. The main sources for investigating this problem are the military gravestones from the North-Italian Roman city Concordia, dated by 394-395 A. D. The analysis of these inscriptions allows to conclude that the most of the transferred units had become part of the East Roman imperial bodyguard, deployed in Constantinople before 394 A. D. Stilicho displaced these vexillationes and auxilia palatina and put them in Northern Italy with the aim to save control over the united Roman army and concentrate the supplementary military forces for defense of Italy from the barbaric invasions.