Flavius ​​Felicianus

Flavius ​​Felicianus was a high Roman official of the 4th century AD.

As Johannes Malalas reports in his world chronicle , Felicianus, a Christian, was comes Orientis in the year 335 . He had one of the highest military offices in the east of the empire. Whether Felicianus actually was the first to bear this title, as Malalas also reports, is however controversial. Emperor Constantine , under whom he served, appointed him first consul in 337 . He took office together with Fabius Titianus . However, Constantine died on May 22nd of the consulate year. Since the name of Felicianus has been erased from an inscription, it could be that he fell for the Damnatio memoriae , the obliteration of his memory. Perhaps he died as one of the victims of the murders after the death of Constantine the Great .

literature

• Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris : Felicianus 5. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971, ISBN 0-521-07233-6 , pp. 330-331.
• Otto Seeck : Felicianus 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 2, Stuttgart 1909, Col. 2162.

Remarks

1. ↑ The full name only in: CIL 10, 476 = Hermann Dessau , Inscriptiones Latinae selectae 6112 (inscription from Paestum ); Karl Wessely , Catalogus papyrorum Raineri. Series Graeca , part 1, Hermann Haessel , Leipzig 1921, No. 88 ( studies on palaeography and papyrus studies 20). In other sources only Felicianus.
2. ↑ Johannes Malalas 318-319.
3. ↑ See for example Timothy D. Barnes , The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine , London 1982, p. 142.
4. ↑ As a consul he is mentioned in: Fasti consulares ; CIL 10, 476 = Hermann Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae 6112; Giovanni Battista de Rossi , Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae 1,47 ; AE 1912, 256 (from Fundi ); Karl Wessely, Catalogus papyrorum Raineri. Series Graeca , Part 1, Haessel, Leipzig 1921, No. 88 ( Studies on Palaeography and Papyrus Studies 20).
5. ↑ At least that is what Otto Seeck, Felicianus 2 , speculates in: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft , Volume VI, 2, Stuttgart 1909, Col. 2162.