Anicius Probinus
Roman senator
Anicius Probinus ( fl. 395–397) was a politician and aristocrat of the Roman Empire .
Biography
A member of the noble gens Anicia , Probinus was the son of Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus , one of the most influential men of his era and consul in 371, and of Anicia Faltonia Proba ; he was then the brother of Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius , Anicius Petronius Probus and Anicia Proba . According to a reconstruction, [1] Probinus was the father of Petronius Maximus , briefly a Western Roman emperor in the spring of 455.
Probinus was raised with his brother Olybrius in Rome, where he was born. [2] He and his brother Olybrius shared the consulate in 395, while both were very young; [3] Claudian dedicated Panegyricus de consulatu Probini et Olybrii to the brothers on this occasion. Although they belonged to a traditionally pagan senatorial family, Olybrius and Probinus were Christians .
Probinus was then proconsul of Africa in 396–397. While proconsul, in 396 he received a letter from Quintus Aurelius Symmachus ( Epistols , ix); on 17 March 397, he received a law preserved in the Codex Theodosianus (XII.5.3).
Arusianus Messius dedicated his Exempla elocutionem to both brothers, and Symmachus addressed a letter to both in 397 ( Epistles , v). It is known that Probinus composed verses.
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Bibliography
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Secondary sources
- Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire , Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 1971, ISBN 0-521-07233-6 , pp. 734–735.
- Drinkwater, John, and Hugh Elton, Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity? , Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-52933-6 , pp. 119–120.
- Hartmut Leppin, Theodosius der Große. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft , Darmstadt 2003, p. 222.
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Roman consul
395 with Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius |
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