Domitius Modestus
Flavius Domitius Modestus (born probably 4th century Arabia ; died before 390) was a Roman lawyer , Praetorian prefect and consul of 372.
Modestus, presumably from Arabia, who began his career as a lawyer, became an assessor with the Praetorian prefect Anatolius in 357 . From 358 to 362 he was under the emperors Constantius II and Julian comes Orientis , which was connected with extensive travels. In this function, as chairman of a commission in Skythopolis, he was a cruel judge. Subsequently he was praefectus urbi of Constantinople in 362/363 and again in 369 . During his time as Praetorian prefect per Orientem under Emperor Valens from 369 to 377 he was appointed consul for the year 372.
Modestus, who was on friendly terms with the famous rhetorician Libanios and, like him, was actually a Christian, has meanwhile returned to the old faith. Nevertheless, Valens had in him an assertive advocate of his religious policy, which was directed against the Confession of Nicaea and was intended to strengthen Arianism . Ammianus Marcellinus and Zosimos put Modestus in an unfavorable light. Modestus died before the year 390.
literature
- Adolf Lippold : Modestus 2. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 1378.
- Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris : Domitius Modestus 2. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971, ISBN 0-521-07233-6 , pp. 605-608.
Remarks
- ↑ Libanios , epistulae 831.
- ↑ Libanios, epistulae 582 f.
- ↑ Libanios, epistulae 34, 37, 46, 49, 100 f.
- ↑ Chronica minora saec. IV 241,369; Libanios, epistulae 791 f. 804.1367.
- ↑ Codex Theodosianus 7, 6, 3; 13, 7; 11, 4, 1; 21, 1; 31, 630, 35.
- ^ Wilhelm Liebenam : Fasti Consulares Imperii Romani from 30 BC. BC to AD 565 with list of emperors and appendix . Bonn 1909, p. 38.
- ↑ Libanios, epistulae 220, 804, 1483.
- ↑ Socrates Scholasticus 4:16 ; Rufinus of Aquileia , apologia adversus Hieronymum 2, 5; Gregor von Nazianz , orationes 43, 48 ff .; Basil of Caesarea , epistulae 110 f. 279 f.
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae 29, 1; 30, 4.
- ^ Zosimos, historia nova 4, 14.
- ↑ Libanios, epistulae 987.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Domitius Modestus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flavius Domitius Modestus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 357 |
| DATE OF DEATH | before 390 |