Flavius Antoninus Messala Vivianus (fl. 459–463) was an administrator 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 Constantin ...

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Vivianus was the father of Paulus (Consul in 512) and Adamantius. His full nomenclature is found on a monument from an uncertain province, indicating that he held the ranks of ''

vir illustris The title ''vir illustris'' ('illustrious man') is used as a formal indication of standing in late antiquity to describe the highest ranks within the senates of Rome and Constantinople. All senators had the title ''vir clarissimus'' ('very famous ...

'' and '' patricius'', and that he had been praetorian prefect and ''consul ordinarius''. He was

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between 459 and 460. In 463 he was appointed Consul by the Eastern court, but he was not recognised in the West, where the only consul was

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* Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Fl. Vivianus 2", ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', Cambridge University Press, 1971, , pp. 1179–1180.

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