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Full name Rossi I 344.

A Frank (see below).

COMES DOMESTICORVMiRole name: COMES DOMESTICORVM of Gratian a. 377-8: sent to Thrace from Gaul in 377 Amm. XXXI 7.4 (a. 377) post quem (sc. Frigeridum) Richomeres domesticorum tunc comes imperatu eiusdem Gratiani motus e Galliis properavit ad Thracias; owing to Frigeridus’s illness he took command and joined Valens’s generals Profuturus and Traianus Amm. XXXI 7.5, and they fought the Goths Amm. XXXI 7.6-16; returned to Gaul in autumn 377 Amm. XXXI 8.2 repetivit Gallias Richomeres, ob maiorem proeliorum fremitum qui sperabatur inde adminicula perducturus; joined Valens in Thrace in 378 Amm. XXXI 12.4 Valens at Adrianople ‘Gratianum impatienter operiens, Richomerem comitem domesti­corum suscepit, ab eodem imperatore praemissum cum litteris ipsum quoque venturum mox indicantibus’; when Fritigern demanded hostages, Richomeres offered to serve, but fighting broke out first Amm. XXXI 12.14-17; he with Victor 4 and Saturninus 10 survived the battle of Adrianople Amm. XXXI 13.9.

MAGISTER MILITVM PER ORIENTEMiRole name: MAGISTER MILITVM PER ORIENTEM a. 383: while in Antioch he sought Libanius’s friendship and received a panegyric from him, but soon went up to Constantinople to enter on his consulship to which he invited Libanius Lib. Or. I 219-20 Ῥιχομήρης ἔρχεται στρατηγός, ἱεροῖς τε καὶ θεοῖς προσκείμενος ἄνθρωπος; he is alluded to in Them. Or. XVI 201B as expecting to succeed Saturninus 10 in the consulship; his presence in Antioch is mentioned in Lib. Ep. 866, 972, 1007, 1024.

CONSVL prioriRole name: CONSVL prior a. 384 with Clearchus 1 (PVC): Fasti, Rossi I 336-7, 339, 342, 344-7, 349, 352, XI 4968, XIV 1880, AE 1905, 78, Ρ. Lips. I 62; he sent a consular present to Symmachus in the following year (a. 385) Symm. Ep. III 59.

COMESiRole name: COMES ET MAGISTER VTRIVSQVE MILITIAEiRole name: MAGISTER VTRIVSQVE MILITIAE (East) a. 388-93: in 388 he, Arbogastes, Promotus and Timasius were sent against Magnus Maximus 39 Philost. HE X 8; he met Symmachus at Rome Symm. Ep. III 55 (late 389) and the latter recommended Flavianus 15 to him Ep. III 58, 66, 69; Richomeres recommended the rhetorician Eugenius 6 to his nephew Arbogastes Zos. IV 54.1, Joh. Ant. fr. 187. Mentioned in Italy Lib. Ep. 972 (a. 390). Received CTh VII 1.13 (a. 391 May 27), styled ‘com. et magister utriusque militiae’. He returned to Theodosius in the East, perhaps in 391 Zos. IV 54.2 (apparently back in the East Lib. Ep. 1024 a. 392). In 393 he was appointed to command the cavalry against Eugenius 6, but died before the campaign started Zos. IV 55.2-3, cf. Joh. Ant. fr. 187.

He was uncle of Arbogastes Joh. Ant. fr. 187 and therefore a Frank; he was a pagan Lib. Or. I 219 (cited above), Ep. 1007. He received from Symmachus Ep. III 54-69 and from Libanius Ep. 866 (a. 388), 972 (a. 390), 1007 (a. 391), 1024 (a. 392), in which Libanius praises his military successes and refers to their friendship when Richomeres was at Antioch.