Flavius ​​Agapitus

Flavius ​​Agapitus was a patricius and consul in 517.

Agapitus entered public life at a relatively late age, after having lived in seclusion in Liguria, where he also made the acquaintance of Magnus Felix Ennodius . In 502/503 Agapitus had received a high office from the Ostrogothic king Theodoric and afterwards became vir inlustris and city ​​prefect of Rome (508-509?). Between 509 and 511 he was appointed Patricius and had to arbitrate various processes among the senators. Probably the circus scandals in Rome at this time caused his resignation.

Agapitus was held in high regard by the senators. Probably in the year 510 Theodoric sent him to the head of an embassy to Constantinople to the emperor. In 517 Agapitus became consul. In the autumn of 525 he traveled with the ex-consuls and patricians Theodorus , Inportunus and yet another patrician Agapitus in the company of Pope John I to Theodoric in Ravenna, in order to induce the king to adopt a more lenient policy towards the Catholic Church, and became together with these, some bishops and the Pope sent by Theodoric to Constantinople to enforce Theodoric's demands on the Emperor Justin I. After his return to Ravenna, he and his companions were thrown into prison by Theodoric, which happened around May 526. His further fate is unknown.

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, pp. 84-85, (Reprinted by Arno Press, New York NY 1975, ISBN 0-405-07065-9 ).
• John Robert Martindale: Fl. Agapitus 3. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , pp. 30-32.