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Born c. a. 326 Amm. XXVI 9.11 (see below); of good family, he was born and brought up in Cilicia Amm. XXVI 6.1; native of Corycus Them. Or. VII 86C, Lib. Or. XXXV 113, Eun. fr. 31, Philost. IX 5. He was a relative, probably on the mother’s side, of the Emperor Julian Amm. XXIII 3.2, XXVI 6.1.18, 7.10, XXVII 5.1, Lib. Or. XXIV 13, Eun. fr. 31, Philost. IX 5, Zos. III 35.2, IV 4.2, 7.1.

His career is given in Amm. XXVI 6.1: notarius diu perspicaciter militans et tribunus,^(a) iamque summatibus proximus,^(b) post Constanti obitum in rerum conversione, velut imperatoris cognatus, altius anhelabat, adiunctus consortio comitum.^(c)

(a) TRIBVNVS ET NOTARIVSiRole name: TRIBVNVS ET NOTARIVS a. 358: tunc notarius, sent with Lucillianus 3 as ambassador to Persia Amm. XVII 14.3, XVIII 6.17; ἐν ὑπογραφέως ἀεὶ μοίρᾳ διαβιοὺς ἐκ τοῦ μέλανος καὶ τῆς καλαμίδος Them. Or. VII 86B-C.

(b) Reached a high position in the schola notariorum.

(c) COMESiRole name: COMES under Julian. In 363 Julian placed him in command of a detachment of troops on the Eastern frontier with Sebastianus 2 Amm. XXIII 3.5, XXV 8.7.16, XXVI 6.2, Zos. III 12.5, IV 4.2, Lib. Or. XVIII 214, 260, Ep. 1379, 1439, Magnus Carrh. (= FHG IV 5).

Julian promised him the succession to the throne Amm. XXIII 3.2, XXVI 6.2-3, Zos. IV 4.2, but after the accession of Jovian he yielded his claim Zos. IV 4.3 and was entrusted with burying Julian’s remains in Tarsus Amm. XXV 9.12; he then retired with his wife and children to his estates at Caesarea in Cappadocia Zos. IV 4.3. The new emperors Valentinian and Valens suspected him and he went into hiding Amm. XXV 9.13, XXVI 6.3, going first to the Black Sea and the Chersonese before making his way to Constantinople Zos. IV 5.1-2. There, with help from Strategius 2 Amm. XXVI 6.5, Eugenius 4 Zos. IV 5.3 and Eunomius Philost. HE IX 8, he won the support of the commanders of the Divitenses and Tungricani and was proclaimed emperor 365 Sept. 28 Cons. Const. s.a. 365, Amm. XXVI 5.8, 6.12ff., Them. Or. VII 91A et seq., Zos. IV 5.5, 6.3, Lib. Or. XIX 15, Soc. IV 3.1.

Executed 366 May 27 Cons. Const. s.a. 366, Jer. Chron. s.a. 366, Amm. XXVI 9.7ff., Them. Or. VII 87B, Zos. IV 8.3-4, Soc. IV 5.2ff., 9.8, Soz. VI 8.1-2, Philost. HE IX 5. He died aged forty Amm. XXVI 9.11.

His wife (see above) may have been Artemisia . He was an ancestor of Procopius (MVM 422-4) and of the emperor Anthemius (Vol. II).