antiquity, an order of soldiery under the eastern empire, who introduced the Goths, Vandals, Alani, Suevi, &c. into Spain. Didymus and Vernianus, two brothers, had, with great vigilance and valour, defended the passages of the Pyreneans against the Barbarians for some time, at their own expense; 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.