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Full name VI 1759 = D 1272, AE 1910, 188; Timasius elsewhere.

He served as an officeriRole name: officer under Valens Zos. V 8.3 Τιμασίῳ στρατιωτικῶν ἡγησαμένῳ ταγμάτων ἀπὸ τῶν Οὑάλεντος χρόνων καὶ πολλῶν μετασχόντι πολέμων.

COMES ET MAGΙSTER EQVITVMiRole name: COMES ET MAGΙSTER EQVITVM (of Theodosius ) a. 386: 386 March 23 CTh IV 17.5^α dat. Cpli.

MAGISTER EQVITVM ET PEDITVMiRole name: MAGISTER EQVITVM ET PEDITVM A.388-95: appointed in 388 by Theodosius to command his infantry against Maximus Zos. IV 45.2 τοῖς δὲ στρατιώταις, ἱππεῦσι μὲν Πρόμωτον, πεζοῖς δὲ Τιμάσιον ἐπέστησεν; joint-commanderiRole name: joint-commander in 388 with Arbogastes, Promotus and Richomeres of the army sent against Maximus Philost. HE X 8. In the affair of the synagogue of Callinicum in (388) he sided against Ambrose and abused the monks Amb. Ep. 41.27 (tunc Timasius magister equitum et peditum coepit adversum monachos esse vehementior). He was consul in 389 (see below). In 391 Timasius ὁ στρατηγός assisted Theodosius in fighting against the Goths near Thessalonica on his journey back from Italy Zos. IV 49.1. Shortly afterwards he and Promotus were eclipsed in the imperial favour by Rufinus 18 Zos. IV 51.1. In 394, however, he was appointed with Stilicho to command the Roman forces against Eugenius Zos. IV 57.2, Joh. Ant. fr. 187. After Theodosius’s death he must have returned to the East, since in 396 he was summoned to Constantinople by Eutropius (Vol. II) from Pamphylia Bargus (Vol. II), and took him to Constantinople; Bargus had for some offence been banished from Constantinople and Eutropius blackmailed him into bringing a charge of treason against Timasius; the case was heard before Saturninus 10 and Procopius 9, and Timasius was exiled to the Great Oasis Zos. V 8.3-9.6, cf. Eun. fr. 71-2, Jer. Ep. 60.16 Timasius praecipitatus repente de altissimo dignitatis gradu evasisse se putat quod in Oase vivit inglorius. He apparently tried to escape and died in the desert Asterius Hom. IV 2,Soz. VIII 7. 2; it was said, however, that his son Syagrius 1 rescued him with the aid of brigands, but neither Timasius nor his son was ever heard of again Zos. V 9.7.

CONSVL prioriRole name: CONSVL prior a. 389 with Promotus (MVM): Fasti, Rossi I 376-9, 382, VI 1759 = D 1272, AE 1910, 188, P. Lips.I 38, BGU III 943.

He left a widow Pentadia Soz. VIII 7.2. He is described in Eun. fr. 70 as an experienced soldier but insolent and proud and a heavy drinker. He received Symm. Ep. III 70-3 (they presumably met when he was in Italy with Theodosius). The scala Timasi in the fourth region at Constantinople was presumably named after him Not. Vrb. Const. V 15.