Gomoarius

Gomoarius ( Latin Gomoarius, Gumoarius ; Greek  Γομαρίος ; Alemannic * Gomohari "man-warrior") was an Alemannic warrior who served in leading positions in the Roman army in the 4th century .

In 350 he was a military tribune under the Roman usurper Vetranio , more precisely tribunus scholae scutariorum , but betrayed his master to Constantius II . Constantius made him in 359/360 the successor of Lupicinus as magister militum , as which he accompanied Caesar Julian . The magister militum (army master) was the highest military title in the late ancient Roman Empire , so it corresponded to the position of a general . However, Julian took him off again in the spring of 361. Thereupon Gomoarius went back to Constantius. Shortly afterwards, when Julian had risen against Constantius to Augustus , received in a command over the Laeten the order to occupy the pass of Succi . However, Constantius died on November 3, 361, preventing a civil war. Gomoarius then seems to have retired into private life.

In 365 he was together with Agilo magister militum under the usurper Procopius , whose troops he commanded in Lydia in the spring of 366 . He then went over to the rightful Emperor Valens and helped him to the victory of Nakoleia . The later historians Socrates Scholastikos and Sozomenos report that Valens had him sawed up after his victory; However, this seems to have been invented, since the contemporary historian Ammianus Marcellinus , to whom we owe the other information on Gomoarius, does not report on it.

swell

• Ammianus Marcellinus 20.9.5 ; 21.8.1 ; 21,13,16 ; 26,7,4; 7.9 .
• Zosimos 4,8,2.

literature

• Hartmut Leppin : Gomoarius. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , Sp. 1143.
• Otto Seeck : Gomoarius . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 2, Stuttgart 1912, col. 1582.
• Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris : Gomoarius. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971, ISBN 0-521-07233-6 , pp. 397-398.

Remarks

1. ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus 21.8.1.
2. ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus 21.8.1; 21,13,16.
3. ↑ Socrates Scholastikos 4,5; Sozomenos 6.8. To this briefly Otto Seeck : Gomoarius . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 2, Stuttgart 1912, col. 1582.