41. Unlike for the legions, ancient Roman historians only rarely mention the auxilia at all, and never denote a specific unit. 42. But traces of other auxilia regiments can be found in the " praesentales " and " comitatenses " armies. 43. In any event, his quote in no way describes accurately the Principate auxilia , many of which were of very high quality. 44. Although there is little evidence of it before the 3rd century, the consensus is that the auxilia recruited barbarians throughout their history. 45. The occupying troops, " Exercitus Germaniae superioris " and " Exercitus Raeticus ", consisted mostly of auxilia cohorts. 46. The " auxilia " remained independent cohorts, and legionary troops often operated as groups of cohorts rather than as full legions. 47. Probably the names of a number of " auxilia " regiments ( and possibly a legion ) are missing in our sources. 48. The revolt of the Batavi appears to have led to a significant change in the Roman government's policy on deployment of Auxilia . 49. Rome's Italian allies were required to provide approximately ten cohorts ( auxilia were not organized into legions ) to support each Roman Legion. 50. The Auxilia were mainly recruited from the " Roman citizens, members of the Auxilia could be recruited from territories outside of Roman control.
