Note 136
From Chapter 17 of the Decline & Fall

Valentinian (Cod. Theodos. l. vii. tit. xiii leg. 3) fixes the standard at five feet-seven inches about five feet four inches and a half English measure. It had formerly been five feet ten inches, and in the best corps six Roman feet.

Sed tunc erat amplior multitudo, et plures militiam sequebantur armatam. Vegetius de Re Militari, 1. i. c. 5.
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