Flavius Decius
Flavius Decius was a Roman patrician and consul in 529.
Decius came from the aristocratic family of the Decier . His father was Basilius Venantius , consul in 508; his brother Decius Paulinus . Decius escaped with some other senators after the capture of Rome by the Ostrogoth king Totila on December 17, 546 to Constantinople .
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. 112, (Reprint: Arno Press, New York NY 1975, ISBN 0-405-07065-9 ).
- John Robert Martindale: Decius 1. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 3A, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-20160-8 , p. 391.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flavius Decius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Decius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul 529 and Patricius |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 529 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 546 |