Decius Paulinus

Flavius ​​Decius Paulinus was the last Roman consul to officiate in Rome .

Paulinus came from the respected Decier family . He was the son of Basilius Venantius (Consul 508) and brother of Decius (Consul 529). He was very young when he entered the consulate in 534 after his brother had been consul. Paulinus was the Ostrogoth Athalaric appointed consul and (like its predecessors) and the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I recognized. With him, the ordinary ( eponymous ) consulate in Rome ended, because after the outbreak of the war between the East and the Ostrogoths in the following year, no further consuls were appointed. However, years later it was dated to Paulinus ( post consulatum Paulini ).

literature

• Johannes Sundwall : Treatises on the history of late Romanism (= Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societenens förhandlingar. B: Humanistiska vetenskaper. Vol. 60, No. 2, 1917/18, ZDB -ID 448249-9 ). Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten, Helsingfors 1919, p. 147, (Reprint: Arno Press, New York NY 1975, ISBN 0-405-07065-9 ).
• John Robert Martindale: (Decius) Paulinus 1. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 3B, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-20160-8 , pp. 973-974.