Darius (''floruit'' 425–437) was a politician of the

Eastern Roman Empire The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

. Darius was a

Praetorian prefect of the East The praetorian prefecture of the East, or of the Orient ( la, praefectura praetorio Orientis, el, ἐπαρχότης/ὑπαρχία τῶν πραιτωρίων τῆς ἀνατολῆς) was one of four large praetorian prefectures into whic ...

. He is attested in office between 28 August 436, when the law preserved in ''

Codex Theodosianus The ''Codex Theodosianus'' (Eng. Theodosian Code) was a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312. A commission was established by Emperor Theodosius II and his co-emperor Valentinian III on 26 March 429 a ...

'' XI 1.37^a was addressed to him, to 16 March 437, the day in which another law, preserved in ''

'' VI 23.4^a, was addressed to him. He might have been in office until October 437; in that case, he was in Constantinople and received a copy of the not-yet published ''Codex Theodosianus''. Darius is to be identified with the Praetorian prefect "Damarius", whose wife Aeliana had a vision in 425, in Constantinople.

Sources

* Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Darius 3", ''

Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire ''Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'' (abbreviated as ''PLRE'') is a work of Roman prosopography published in a set of three volumes collectively describing many of the people attested to have lived in the Roman Empire from AD 260, the date ...

'', Cambridge University Press, 1971, , p. 348. 5th-century Byzantine people Praetorian prefects of the East {{Byzantine-bio-stub