The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 1, A.D. 206-395 [English OCR]

1170 Pages·1971·19.237 MB·English

by  A. H. M. Jones, J. R. Martindale, J. Morris

THE PROSOPOGRAPHY OF
THE LATER ROMAN
EMPIRE

BY
A. H. M. JONES, LL.D., D.D.
ca
Late Professor of Ancient History in the
University of Cambridge
J. R. MARTINDALE
& J. MORRIS

VOLUME I
A.D. 260-395

CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1971
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PREFACE
The proje:t of a prosopographical dictionary of the Later Roman
Ismpire was originated by Theodor Mommsen but, unlike the com-
panion dictionary, the Prosopographia Imperit Romani (now in its second
edition as far as the letter ‘L’), it failed of fruition, largely through the
intervention of the two World Wars. The bulky archives representing
the work of many German scholars lay in Berlin during the second war
when they were damaged and in part destroyed, together with essential
cords, during au Allied bombing raid. Consequently when the project
was taken up in England alter the war, the work had to be restarted
from the sry beginning. The present volume therefore represents the
first stage of fulfilment of Mommsen’s original project.
The order of the names on the tile pageis alphabetic. The parts played
hy cach author are as follows. Jones launched the Prosopography in
1950 by an appeal to scholars throughout the world to read the sources
and send in slips. ‘This appeal was generously answered, as the appended
list of scholars show. The remaining sources were read by the authors
themselves, Morris contributing largely to Latin epigraphy. Jones also
raised finance. Morris also gave invaluable aid by his experience in the
Prosopngraphia Imperit Romani in method, technique and layout. Our first
task was to extract all relevant material [rom Pauly-Wissowa-Kroll,
Real-Fneyclopddte der classischen olltertumswissenschaft, a work performed by
Mrs MM. Shields. We then collated slips as they came in. At this stage
valuable work in arranging the material and in compiling detailed
preliminary lists was donc by Dr J. Mann, who also contributed to the
reading of sources by undertaking the Codex Theodosianus.
We have worked throughout in [riendly co-operation with Professor
Marrou’s Prosopagraphic Chrélieme, which provided slips from some
cecle, ‘al soure+s. Morris made :veral trips to Paris to extract the
slips front the lile, Morris also pe ‘suaded the Berlin Academy to lend
us Uheir surviving archives, which we have used to check our final result.
We are deeply gratelul to the Berlin Academy. Their most valuable
contribution was a large numbe of names from the Acta Sanctorum.
We also indebted to Professor A, Chastagnol for his advice and
criticisin on matters concerning Roman senators.
In 1964 we began writing the biographies. Jones made drafts of most
illustre. PPO, PVR, PVG, MVM, QSP, Mag. Off., CSL, CRP);
Martindale contributed some difficult ones, particularly the praetorian
prefeets of Constantine. Martindale wrote nearly all the other entries,
PREFACE

and also checked and revised, and in some cases substantially improved
Jones’s drafts of the major characters. Jones also checked Martindale’s
drafts and occasionally improved them. We also owe most of the
biographies of literary persons to Mr Alan Cameron of Bedford
College, London, and the biographies of most Germans are due to
Professor E. A. Thompson of the University of Nottingham.
We have endeavoured to include for the relevant period (a, 260-395)
all senators (illustres, spectabiles, clarissimi), equestrians (perfectissimi,
ducenarii, centenarii, egregii), comites and holders of honores or dignitates
down to provincial governors and tribunes, praefectt and pracpositi of
military units; also officials of the palatine ministries and of PPOs,
PVRs and MVMs, assessors of magistrates, lawyers, doctors, rhetors,
grammarians and poets. We have excluded private soldiers and NCOs
(circitores, biarchi, centenarii, ducenarii, senatores, primicerii, cen-
turions and decurions), and decurions of cities (whom we have in our
files). We have endeavoured to include all information on the pro-
venance, religion, wealth and family relationships of all characters;
the work includes wives and children of the men listed. Persons are
entered under their last name, which they commonly used, but cross-
references are given under their other names. At the beginning we have
included all persons attested to have held posts or been senators or
equestrians from 260, and at the end similar persons attested before 395.
There will thus be an overlap at both ends, at the beginning with the
Prosopographia Imperit Romani and at the other end with volume 1 in
which some biographies will be repeated.
At the end of the volume are Fastz, i.e. chronological lists of office
holders. ‘These should be consulted when an article assigns an approxi-
mate date to an office, which has often to be obtained by elimination. At
the end will also be found stemmata, i.e. family trees of the families of the
emperors and a number of other prominent figures; these are adapted
from Seeck (articles in P~W and ed. Symm. pp. i-cci) and from Chasta-
gnol, Fastes, pp. 291-6, and are so printed that certain and putative rela-
tionships are distinguished by continuous and pecked lines respectively.
Throughout we have given the evidence in full, and our interpreta-
tion of it without discussion of other possible reconstructions. We do not
usually give secondary sources, but have made use not only of the
articles in P-W but also of the following works:
O. Seeck, Regesten der Kaiser und Papste (Stuttgart, 1919).
O. Seeck, Die Briefe des Libanius (Leipzig, 1906).
O. Seeck, Symmachus (MGH, AA vr’, Berlin, 1883).
A. Chastagnol, Les Fastes de la Préfecture de Rome au Bas-Empire
(Paris, 1960).
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H.-G. Pflaum, Les Carriéres Procuratoriennes Equestres sous le Haut-Empire
romain (Paris, 1960-1).
L. Robert, Hellenica rv (1948).
E. Groag, Die Reichsbeamten von Achaia in spatrémischer Zeit (Budapest,
194.6).
Marie-Madeleine Hauser-Meury, Prosopographie zu den Schriften
Gregors von Nazianz (Bonn, 1960).
H.-G. Kolbe, ‘Die Statthalter Numidiens von Gallien bis Kon-
stantin (268-320)’, in Vestigia 1v (1962).
Our thanks go to the following scholars who helped by reading the
sources and sending in slips: Prof. H. I. Bell, Prof. R. Browning, Prof.
A. E. R. Boak, Prof. Glanville Downey, Prof. A. E. Gordon, Prof. J. A.
McGeachy, Prof. A. F. Norman, P. Parsons, Prof. B. R. Rees, L. F.
Smith, F.D.Thomas, Prof. E.A.Thompson, Prof. E. G. Turner,
B. H. Warmington, H. Zilliacus, and others.
Finally we would like to thank the British Academy, the Faculty of
Classics in the University of Cambridge, and All Souls College, Oxford,
for the generous support which has made the work possible.
A, H.M. J.
j.R.M.
Cambridge Jj. M.
The Prosopography has suffered a heavy loss by the untimely death of
Professor A. H. M. Jones. It was through his energy and initiative that
the project of a Late Roman Prosopography was resumed after the war,
and with his incomparable knowledge of the period he had guided it
ever since. It is sad that he did not live to see the first volume in print,
but he did see and check the final proofs.
The future of the Prosopography is assured. Volumes m1 (A.D. 395-
527) and m (A.D. 527-640) are in active preparation, and will appear in
the next few years. The British Academy, which has largely financed
it in the past, has, with the agreement of the Faculty of Classics of
Cambridge University, now adopted the project; and Professor E. A.
Thompson of Nottingham University as been appointed Chairman of
a small supervisory Committee.
_A. T.
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.R.M.

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NOTICE BY THE EDITORS
In this work there are bound to be errors and
omissions, and new material, epigraphic and
papyrological, will continue to come in. Will all
readers please notify the editors, care of the Cam-
bridge University Press, The Pitt Building, Trum-
pington Street, Cambridge, England, of errors and
omissions which they have detected, and send new
material, published or unpublished. They will be
printed as addenda and corrigenda in Volume im.
CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations page xi
Symbols and Conventions xxii
THE PROSOPOGRAPHY I
Fragmentary Names 997
Anonymi 1004.
Fasti 1041
Stemmata 1128
Index to Fasti 1151
Index to Stemmata 1152
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
A.C. Oec. Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum, ed. E. Schwartz
AE Année Epigraphique
Agathang. Agathangelus
AFA American Journal of Archaeology
AFP American Fournal of Philology
Akt. IV Congr. Epigr. Acts of the Fourth International Epigraphic Congress
Amb. de exe. Sat. Ambrose, de excessu fratris Satyri
Amb. de ob. Theod. Ambrose, de obitu Theodosii
Amb. de ob. Val. Iun. Ambrose, de obitu Valentiniani Iunioris
Amb. £~. Ambrose, Epistulae
Amb. Jos. Ambrose, de osepho patriarcha
Amb. Lib. de exhort. virg. Ambrose, de exhortatione virginitatis liber unus
Amb. Lib. HI de virg. Ambrose, de virginibus libri tres
Amb. off. Ambrose, de officits ministrorum
Amb. serm. c. Aux. Ambrose, sermo contra Auxentium
Amm. Ammianus Marcellinus
Anal. Boll. Analecta Bollandiana
Anon. Val. Anonymus Valesianus
Ant. Class. Antiquité Classique
Anth. Gr. Anthologia Graeca; books 1-xv=Anth(ologia) Pal(atina);
book xvi = App(endix) Plan(udea)
Anth. Lat. Anthologia Latina, ed. F. Buecheler and A. Riese (Tbnr)
Anth. Pal. see Anth. Gr.
Arch. Pap. Archiv fiir Papyrusforschung

Art. Pass. Artemiu Passio
ASS Acta Sanctorum
Ath. Mitt. Athenische Mitteilungen
Athan. Ap. Const. Athanasius, Apologia ad Constantium
Athan. Apol. c. Ar. Athanasius, Apologia contra Arianos
Athan. Apol. de fuga Athanasius, Apologia de fuga sua
Athan. de Synod. Athanasius, de Synodis
Athan. Ep. ad Jov. Athanasius, Epistula ad Iovianum
Athan. Ep. Encycl. Athanasius, Epistula Encyclica
Athan. Fest. Ep. Athanasius, Festal Epistles
Athan. Fest. Ind. Athanasius, Index to the Festal Epistles
Athan. Hist. Ar. Athanasius, Historia Arianorum
Athan. V. Ant. Athanasius, Vita Antoni
Atti IIT Congr. Epigr. Acts of the Third International Epigraphic Congress
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Aug. Bree. Coll. Augustine, Breviculus Collationis cum Donatistis
Aug. ¢. Acad. Augustine, contra Academicos
Aug. ¢. Crese. Augustine, conira Cresconium
Aug. ¢. Ep. Parm. Augustine, contra Epistulam Parmeniant
Aug. c. Gaud. Augustine, contra Gaudentium
Aug. c. Jul. Pel. Augustine, contra Julianum Pelagianum
Aug. c. Lit. Petil. Augustine, contra Litteras Petiliani
Aug. Civ. Dei Augustine, de Civitate Dei
Aug. Gonf. Augustine, Confessiones
Aug. ¢. part. Don. post gesta. Augustine, contra partem Donati post gesta
(=ad Donatistas post Collationem)
Aug. de bapt. c. Don. Augustine, de baptismo contra Donatistas
Aug. de rhet. Augustine, de rhetorica
Aug. de unic. bapt. Augustine, de unico baptismo
Aug. enarr. in Psalm. Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos
Aug. Hp. Augustine, Epistulae
Aug. Ep. ad Cath. Augustine, Epistula ad Catholicos
Aug. Refract. Augustine, Retractationes
Aug. Serm. Augustine, Sermones
Aur. Vict. Caes. Aurelius Victor, Liber de Caesaribus
Aur. Vict. Epit. Aurelii Victoris de Caesaribus Libri Epitome
Aus. Ausonius, ed. C. Schenkl (MGH (AA), vol. v)
‘Aus. Domest. Ausonius, Domestica
Aus. Ep. or Epist. Ausonius, Epistulae
Aus. Epigr. Ausonius, Efigrammaia
Aus. pit. Ausonius, Epitaphia
Aus. Grat. Act. Ausonius, Gratiarum Actio
Aus. Par. Ausonius, Parenialia
Aus. Prof. Ausonius, Professores
Bas. Ef. Basil, Epistulae
BCH Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique
BCTH Bulletin archéologique du Comité des Travaux historiques et
scientifiques
BGU Aegyptische Urkunden aus den staatlichen Museen zu Berlin,
Griechische Urkunden, Berlin (1892-1937)
BHO Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis
Bol. Real. Acad. Hist. Boletino de la reale Academia de la Historia
BSA Annual of the British School at Athens
Bull. Comm. Bullettino della Commissione archeologica comunale di Roma
Bull. Soc. Ant. Bulletin de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de la France
CAG Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, Berlin (1881- )
Callin. V. Hypat. Callinicus, V. Hypatii (Tbnr)
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Tass. (Gassiod.) Chron Cassiodorus, Chronicle
Cedr. Cedrenus
Chr. 1 UU. Wileken, Chrestomathie
Ghr. I 1. Mitteis, Ghrestomathie
Che. -Schin. St. Wilhelm von Christ, Wilhelm Schmid and Otto
Stihlin, Gesehichte der wriechischen Literatur, 1 2",
Ghron. 35.4 Ghronagraphus anit cccii (2 Chron, Min. 1 39-148)
Chron. Gall. Chroniea Callica (= Ghron. Min. 1 629 11)
Chron, Min. Chroniea Minora (MOH (AA), vols. IX, X1, X11)
Chron. Pash. Chronicon Paschale
CIE Corpus Inseriptionum Etruscarum
CIG Corpus Inveriptionum Graccarum
GH. Corpus Invertptionum Latinarum (but relerences to the volumes of
CHL are normally given in the forin, eg. x 38404)
GiSen. Corpus Tnseriftionum Semiticarun
CF Codex Lustinianus
Class. Ree. Classical Review
Cdaud, de bello Get, Glaudian, de bello Getico
Claud. de bello Gid. Glaudian, de bello Cildonico
Claud. de cons. Stil. Claudian, de consulatu Stilichanis
Claud. de fon. Glandian, de quarto consulate Honarit
Claud. de Hien, Claudiian, de sexta consulata: Honorii
Claud. de ut cons. Ton, Claudian, de tertio consulata Lonorit
Claud. /pier, Glaudian, Jpigranmata

Claud. /jithal. Glaudian, /pithalamium
Claud. i cons. Olvbr. et Prob. Claudian, éa consulatum Olrbri et Probini
Claud. ta dutrop. Claudiany oe /sudropinin
Gland. in Ataf) Claudian, in Rujinan
Gland, Pan. Malhio Theodora Claudii Panegyricus dictus Matlio
Theodora consult
GMC Garpus Medicorum Graccorum
Cid. Crree. Cadex Ceregorianns, fragmenta
Call, Avell. Colleetio Avellana (CSET. xxxv}
Gall, Mos. ef Rom. Leg. Gollatio Lesum Mosaicarum et Romanarnm
Cons. Gonst, Gonsadaria Ganstantinopotitana in Chron, Min. 1)
Consult, Consultatio ceteris cutusdaur iurisconsulti
Corp. Hipp. Gorpus Hippiatricorum Graeenum (Vbney,
CPLiferm. Corpus af Papert trom [Hermupolis = Stal, Pal. v
GPR Corpas Papyrorum Raineri
GRAAL Cumples-Rendus de U Académie des [nseviptions et Belles Lettres
CNEL. Corpus Scriptorum Eeelesiasticorum Latinorum (Vieni
Th Cndex Theodostanas
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