in antiquity, an order of soldiers under the eastern empire, who introduced the Goths, Vandals, Alani, Suevi, &c. into Spain. Didymus and Verinianus, two brothers, had, with great vigilance and valour, defended the passes of the Pyreneans against the Barbarians for some time, at their own expence; but being at length killed, the emperor Constantius appointed the honoriaci to defend those passages, who, not contented to lay them open to all the nations of the north then ravaging the Gauls, joined themselves to them.