in Antiquity, an order of soldiery under the eastern empire, who introduced the Goths, Vandals, Alani, Suevi, and other tribes, into Spain. Didymus and Veriniatus, two brothers, had, with great vigilance and valour, defended the passages of the Pyrenees against the barbarians; but being at length killed, the emperor Constantius appointed to defend those passages the honoriaci, who, not contented with laying them open to all the nations of the north then ravaging the Gauls, actually joined the spoilers.