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I can't add much to the link that GO has posted. According to Southern and Dixon's Late Roman Army, the arcani (or areani) are mentioned as being housed around Hadrian's Wall (as was mentioned in the link). It also metnions that Theodosius had dissmissed the arcani when he had ordered the withdrawl of troops from off the wall. Very little is known about the arcani, but according Ammianus they were scouts or intelligence gatherers, who scouted over long distances to warn the Roman army of any likely trouble. They seem to have been dismissed because they had handed information over to the native Britons or Caledonians and therefore could not be trusted.

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