Ceionius Rufius Albinus (Consul 335)

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Ceionius Rufius Albinus (* March 14/15, 303 , † in the 4th century ) was a high-ranking Roman official of late antiquity .

Albinus came from the highly respected Ceionian family , his father Gaius Ceionius Rufius Volusianus and his grandfather Nummius Albinus were 311 and 263 consuls, respectively . His mother was Nummia Albina. Ceionius Rufius Albinus rose to high dignity under Emperor Constantine . In 335 he held the consulate as second consul (consul posterior) together with Julius Constantius , a half-brother of the emperor . From December 30, 335 to March 9, 337 he was also city ​​prefect of the city of Rome. A quadriga was set up for him in Rome around 337 , perhaps as a reward for having obtained a number of competencies for the Senate . Nothing else is known about his career.

An inscription from Rome , which also gives an overview of Albinus' career and his full name, calls him “philosophus”, philosopher. That is why he is perhaps Albinus, whose books on dialectics and geometry, which are now lost, are named by the later philosopher Boethius . He could also have been the author of a story of Rome in verse mentioned by Priscian .

The senator and astrologer Iulius Firmicus Maternus passed on in his Mathesis the horoscope of an unnamed city prefect who modern research has identified with Ceionius Rufius Albinus. Based on this horoscope, Albinus' date of birth can be determined as March 14 (or 15), 303.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Chronograph von 354 , in: Theodor Mommsen , Chronica Minora , Volume 1, p. 68.
  2. ↑ Seeck suspects, in: RE, Vol. III, 2, Col. 1860.
  3. ↑ CIL 6, 1708 = Hermann Dessau , Inscriptiones Latinae selectae 1222 = AE page no longer available , search in web archives: 2005, 186 .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / edh-www.adw.uni-heidelberg.de
  4. ↑ Boethius, commentario in Arist. περὶ ἑρμην. ed. sec. I 1.
  5. ↑ Priscian, Inst. 7.22 = GL 2.304. Cf. PLRE, Vol. 1, p. 37, where he also spoke with Audax, Exc. = GL 7,339 and Rufinus , Comm. in metr. Terento. = GL 6.565 is related. On this Albinus see also Ernst Graf : Albinus 5 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1315.
  6. ^ First Theodor Mommsen , Firmicus Maternus , in: Hermes , Volume 29, Issue 3, 1894, pp. 468–472, here pp. 471f. ( online ); against objections Timothy D. Barnes , Two Senators under Constantine , in: The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 65, 1975, pp. 40-49, here p. 43.
  7. ^ Otto Neugebauer , The Horoscope of Ceionius Rufius Albinus , in: The American Journal of Philology , Volume 74, Issue 4, 1953, pp. 418-420.
personal data
SURNAME Albinus, Ceionius Rufius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albinus; Albinus, Rufius; Albinus, Rufinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul and official of late antiquity
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 303 or March 15, 303
DATE OF DEATH 4th century