Eusebius (Consul 359)

Flavius ​​Eusebius (* presumably in Thessalonike ) was a late antique Roman official of the 4th century AD. He was consul in 359.

Eusebius was the son of the army master of the same name, Flavius ​​Eusebius , who had been consul in 347. Like him and his siblings Eusebia and Hypatius , he came from the Macedonian Thessaloniki. Eusebius' career began after his sister Eusebia married the Emperor Constantius II in 353 and promoted her brothers. Around the year 355 he became governor of Hellespontus ( consularis Hellesponti ) , supported by his sister, who exerted great influence on the emperor . In 355 he visited Antioch before continuing to Bithynia , where he was also governor ( consularis Bithyniae ) in 356 . In Antioch, the speaker Libanios gave him some of his letters ( epistulae 457-459) on the way to Bithynia, which he delivered there.

In 359 he finally became consul with his younger brother Hypatius. He is only mentioned in the sources again in 371, during the reign of Emperor Valens , when he and his brother were accused in Antioch of conspiring against the Emperor and wanting to overthrow him. Although nothing could be proven, they had to pay a fine and were banished. Soon after, however, they were allowed to return; the money was returned to them. When Eusebius finally died is unknown.

literature

• Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris : Flavius ​​Eusebius 40. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971, ISBN 0-521-07233-6 , pp. 308-309 ( online version ).
• Otto Seeck : Eusebios 3) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 1366 f.
• Adolf Lippold : Eusebios 2. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 458 f.