limitanei

To hold back invaders, he built hundreds of forts along the frontiers and established a regular system of frontier forces (limitanei).

2. Eastern Europe, 500-1025 2001

In the provinces, stationed along the borders, were the frontier armies made up of resident soldiers (limitanei) and commanded by a dux.

b. Diocletian and the House of Constantine 2001

"miles castellani" or "limitanei," as they were termed, had slaves and cattle allotted to them, so that the land's development should not be hindered through lack of labour or on account of the owners losing the physical capacity for work.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

England, vol.i. p. 56) supposes the settlement of a military colony formed of British soldiers, (Milites limitanei, laeti,) during the usurpation of Maximus, (381, 388,) who gave their name and peculiar civilization to Bretagne.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765