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, one of the oldest offices of the Roman state, attested from the time of the kings through the

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and the

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up until 599. The office also existed during the era of the Crescentii family in Rome, late 10th century, as well as in the early 12th century, when the Pope appointed its holders. It was especially influential during the imperial period and

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, when the urban prefect exercised the government of the city of Rome and its surrounding territory.

6th to 1st century BC

* Aulus Sempronius Atratinus (499 BC) * Quintus Servilius Priscus Structus (465 BC) * Lucius Papirius Crassus (325 BC) * Lucius Julius Caesar (47 BC) - appointed by the

Magister equitum The , in English Master of the Horse or Master of the Cavalry, was a Roman magistrate appointed as lieutenant to a dictator. His nominal function was to serve as commander of the Roman cavalry in time of war, but just as a dictator could be nomi ...

Marc Antony Marcus Antonius (14 January 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from a constitutional republic into the aut ...

during his absence from Rome *

Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (64 BC – AD 8 or c. 12) was a Roman general, author, and patron of literature and art. Family Corvinus was the son of the consul in 61 BC, Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger,Syme, R., ''Augustan Aristocracy'', ...

(26 BC) *

Titus Statilius Taurus Titus Statilius Taurus was the name of a line of Roman senators. The first known and most important of these was a Roman general and two-time consul prominent during the Triumviral and Augustan periods. The other men who bore this name were hi ...

(16 BC - AD 14)

1st century

* Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (AD 14 - 32) * Lucius Aelius Plautius Lamia (32 - 33) * Cossus Cornelius Lentulus (33 - ?) *

Quintus Sanquinius Maximus Quintus Sanquinius Maximus (died AD 47) was a senator of the early Roman Empire, who flourished during the Principate. He is attested as suffect consul in AD 39, replacing the emperor Caligula. However, based on Tactius' enigmatic description o ...

(39 - 41) * Lucius Volusius Saturninus (41 - 56) * Titus Flavius Sabinus (56 - 60; first term) *

Lucius Pedanius Secundus __NoToC__ Lucius Pedanius Secundus (d. AD 61) was a Roman senator of the first century. In AD 43, during the reign of Claudius, he was consul ''suffectus'' from the Kalends of March to the Kalends of July, together with Sextus Palpellius Hister. ...

(60 - 61) * Titus Flavius Sabinus (62 - 68; second term) *

Aulus Ducenius Geminus Aulus Ducenius Geminus was a Roman senator active in the first century AD. Geminus is best known as Galba's appointment as Urban prefect of Rome during the Year of Four Emperors.Tacitus, ''Histories'', i.14 Geminus had family connections with Pata ...

(68 - 69) * Titus Flavius Sabinus (69; third term) *

Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus was a Roman patrician who twice served as consul, in 45 and 74 AD. He was the adopted nephew of Plautia Urgulanilla, first wife of the emperor Claudius. It is known he offered up the prayer as pontifex when ...

(sometime between 69 and 79) *

Lucius Plotius Pegasus (Lucius?) Plotius Pegasus was a Roman senator and jurisconsult active under the Flavian dynasty. He was suffect consul in an uncertain year, most likely 72 or 73, as the colleague of Lucius Cornelius Pusio Annius Messalla. Shortly after his asc ...

(before 78 - 86) * Marcus Arrecinus Clemens (86 - ?) * Titus Aurelius Fulvus (sometime between 86 and 96) *

Quintus Julius Cordinus Gaius Rutilius Gallicus Quintus Julius Cordinus Gaius Rutilius Gallicus was a Roman senator who held several posts in the emperor's service. He was twice suffect consul: for the first time in the ''nundinium'' of September to October 70 AD; and the second time in 85 wi ...

(in 91)

2nd century

Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus (45 – 136 AD) was an Iberian Roman politician. He was a prominent public figure in the reigns of Roman emperors Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian. He was the last private citizen to receive a third consulship; such honors ...

(c. 102) *

Quintus Glitius Atilius Agricola Quintus Glitius Atilius Agricola was a Roman senator and general who held several posts in the emperor's service. He was twice suffect consul: for the first time in AD 97 with Lucius Pomponius Sura as his colleague, and the second time in 103 whe ...

(c.103) * Sextus Attius Suburanus (c. 104) * Tiberius Julius Candidus Marius Celsus (c. 105) * Quintus Baebius Macer (? - 117) * Marcus Annius Verus (117 - 124) * Marcus Lollius Paullinus (124 - ?) *

Lucius Catilius Severus Lucius Catilius Severus Julianus Claudius Reginus was a Roman senator and general active during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian. He was appointed consul twice: the first time in 110 CE (as ''consul suffectus'') with Gaius Erucianus Silo as his ...

(? - 138) * Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus (138 - ?) *

Sextus Erucius Clarus Sextus Erucius Clarus (died March 146) was a Roman senator and aristocrat. He was Urban prefect and twice consul, the second time for the year AD 146. Clarus was the nephew of Gaius Septicius Clarus, a friend of Pliny the Younger. Erucius Clarus ...

(? - 146) *

Quintus Lollius Urbicus Quintus Lollius Urbicus was a Numidian Berber governor of Roman Britain between the years 139 and 142, during the reign of the Emperor Antoninus Pius. He is named in the ''Historia Augusta'', although it is not entirely historical, and his name ...

(146 - 160) *

Quintus Junius Arulenus Rusticus Quintus is a male given name derived from '' Quintus'', a common Latin forename ('' praenomen'') found in the culture of ancient Rome. Quintus derives from Latin word ''quintus'', meaning "fifth". Quintus is an English masculine given name and ...

(160 - 167 or 168) * Lucius Sergius Paullus (167 or 168 - ?) *

Gaius Aufidius Victorinus Gaius Aufidius Victorinus was a Roman senator and general of the second century. A friend of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the son-in-law of the advocate and orator Marcus Cornelius Fronto, he was twice consul and governor of several Roman provin ...

(179 - 183) *

Publius Seius Fuscianus Publius Seius Fuscianus (c. 120 – aft. 189) was a suffect consul c. 151, Praefectus urbi from 187 to 189, and ''consul ordinarius'' in 188. He was a childhood friend and schoolmate of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Géza Alföldy notes that Fuscianu ...

(187 - 189) *

Publius Helvius Pertinax Publius Helvius Pertinax (; 1 August 126 – 28 March 193) was Roman emperor for the first three months of 193. He succeeded Commodus to become the first emperor during the tumultuous Year of the Five Emperors. Born the son of a freed slav ...

(189 - 31 December 192) *

Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus ( ca. 137 AD – 197 AD) was a Roman statesman who served as Senator and Consul suffectus. He unsuccessfully attempted to succeed his son-in-law Pertinax as Emperor in 193. Early life Sulpicianus was probably bor ...

(1 January - 28 March 193) *

Cornelius Repentinus Cornelius Repentinus was a Roman Senator who was active in the 2nd century AD. He held a number of positions during the reigns of emperors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus and Didius Julianus, which included suffect consul and Urban prefect of Rome. ...

(April - June 193) * (Vibius?) Bassus (July 193) *

Gaius Domitius Dexter Gaius Domitius Dexter (fl. 2nd century) was a Roman senator who was appointed consul twice: firstly as suffect consul prior to AD 183, and secondly as ordinary consul in AD 196 with Lucius Valerius Messalla Thrasea Priscus as his colleague. Biogr ...

(late July 193 - 196) *

Publius Cornelius Anullinus Publius Cornelius Anullinus (or, occasionally, Anulinus) was one of the generals of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus. He was from the city of Iliberis (Granada, or identified by modern scholars as likely being in or near Albayzín), and, while ...

(196 - 199) * Lucius Octavius Cornelius Publius Salvius Julianus Aemilianus (sometime in the 2nd century)

3rd century

* Lucius Fabius Cilo Septiminus Catinius Acilianus Lepidus Fulcinianus (202/3 - 211) * Sextus Varius Marcellus (mid/late 211 - December 211) * Gaius Julius Asper (January 211 - ?) * Flavius Maternianus (217) *

Marcus Oclatinius Adventus The gens Oclatinia was an obscure Roman family of imperial times. It is best known from a single individual, Marcus Oclatinius Adventus, consul for the second time in AD 218, together with the emperor Macrinus. From various sources, we know tha ...

(11 April 217 - mid 217) *

Lucius Marius Maximus Perpetuus Aurelianus Lucius Marius Maximus Perpetuus Aurelianus (more commonly known as Marius Maximus) (c. AD 160 – c. AD 230) was a Roman biographer, writing in Latin, who in the early decades of the 3rd century AD wrote a series of biographies of twelve Emperors ...

(mid 217 - 219) *

Publius Valerius Comazon Publius Valerius Eutychianus Comazon (died after 222) was a Roman general and ally of emperor Elagabalus. Comazon began his career as an ordinary army recruit under the Emperor Commodus, whom he served as a soldier in the province of Thrace. Whil ...

(219 - 220; first term) * (Domitius?) Leo (Procillianus?) (c. 220) *

(221; second term) * Fulvius (? 221 - 222) *

(222; third term) * Severus (attested 223) * Appius Claudius Julianus (224) * Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus (c. 234 - 237) * Sabinus (? - 238) *

Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheus Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheus ( Greek: Τιμησίθεος) (AD 190-243) was an officer of the Roman Imperial government in the first half of the 3rd century. Most likely of Oriental-Greek origins, he was a Roman citizen, probably o ...

(? - 243) * Flavius Julius Latronianus (between 238 and 244) * Gaius Julius Aquilius Paternus (sometime in the mid-3rd century) *

Lucius Caesonius Lucillus Macer Rufinianus Lucius Caesonius Lucillus Macer Rufinianus () was a Roman military officer and senator who was appointed suffect consul probably between AD 225 and 229. Much of what we know about him comes from an inscription found on the base of a statute nea ...

(c. 246/254) * Gaius Messius Quintus Decius Valerianus (248) * Publius Licinius Valerianus (250 - 251) *

Lucius Egnatius Victor Lollianus Lucius Egnatius Victor Lollianus (fl. 3rd century) was a Roman Empire, Roman military officer and Senate of the Roman Empire, senator, who served as governor of a number of provinces of the Roman East, including Galatia, Achaea, Bithynia and Pontus ...

(254) * Lucius Valerius Publicola Balbinus Maximus (255) * Nummius Ceionius Albinus (256; first term) *

Gaius Junius Donatus Gaius Junius Donatus (fl. mid-third century) was a Roman politician, who was appointed consul twice, the second time in AD 260, during the Crisis of the Third Century. Biography A member of a noble family and perhaps of North African descent, Dona ...

(257) * Publius Cornelius Saecularis (258 - 260) * Nummius Ceionius Albinus (261 - 263; second term) * Aspasius Paternus (264 - 266) *

Lucius Petronius Taurus Volusianus Lucius Petronius Taurus Volusianus (died c.286 AD) was a Roman citizen, apparently of equestrian origins, whose career in the Imperial Service in the mid-Third Century AD carried him from a relatively modest station in life to the highest public ...

(267 - 268) *

Flavius Antiochianus Flavius Antiochianus (flourished 3rd century) was a prominent Roman politician during the reigns of the emperors Gallienus, Claudius Gothicus, Quintillus and Aurelian, in the period referred to as the Crisis of the Third Century in the Roman Empire ...

(269 - 270; first term) * Pomponius Bassus (270 or 271) *

Titus Flavius Postumius Varus Titus Flavius Postumius Varus (fl. 3rd century) was a Roman senator who was appointed suffect consul around AD 250. Biography While Postumius Varus was a third-century member of the ''gens Postumii'', he was not descended from the Republican f ...

(271) *

(272; second term) *

Virius Orfitus Virius Orfitus was a Roman statesman who served as Consul in 270 and Praefectus urbi from 273 to 274. He was likely related to Lucius Virius Lupus Iulianus and Lucius Virius Agricola Lucius ( el, Λούκιος ''Loukios''; ett, Luvcie) is a mal ...

(273 - 274) * Postumius Suagrus (275) * Ovinius Pacatianus (276 - 277) *

Virius Lupus Virius Lupus ( – after 205) (possibly Lucius Virius Lupus) was a Roman soldier and politician of the late 2nd and early 3rd century. Biography Virius Lupus was the first member of the ''gens Virii'' to attain high office in the Roman Em ...

(278 - 280) * Ovinius Paternus (281) * Pomponius Victorianus (282) * Titucius Roburrus (283) * Ceionius Varus (284 - 285) *

Lucius Caesonius Ovinius Manlius Rufinianus Bassus Lucius Caesonius Ovinius Manlius Rufinianus Bassus (c. AD 227 – c. AD 300) was a Roman military officer and senator who was appointed suffect consul twice, in around AD 260 and 284. Biography Rufinianus Bassus was the son of Lucius Caesonius Luc ...

(285) *

Marcus Junius Maximus Marcus, Markus, Márkus or Mărcuș may refer to: * Marcus (name), a masculine given name * Marcus (praenomen), a Roman personal name Places * Marcus, a main belt asteroid, also known as (369088) Marcus 2008 GG44 * Mărcuş, a village in Dobâr ...

(286 - 287) * Pomponius Januarianus (288 - 289) * Lucius Turranius Gratianus (290 - 291) *

Gaius Junius Tiberianus Gaius Junius Tiberianus (born c. AD 230) was a Roman soldier and senator who was appointed consul twice, first around AD 265, and then in AD 291. Biography According to the notoriously unreliable '' Historia Augusta'', Tiberianus was related in s ...

(291 - 292) * Claudius Marcellus (292 - 293) *

Septimius Acindynus Septimius Acindynus was a Roman consul with Valerius Proculus in 340 AD. He was governor of Antioch Antioch on the Orontes (; grc-gre, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, ''Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou'', Learned ; also Syrian ...

(293 - 295) *

Titus Claudius Aurelius Aristobulus Titus Claudius Aurelius Aristobulus ( 285–296 AD) was a Roman soldier and politician who served as consul in 285 AD. He served two emperors, Carinus and Diocletian. Biography Aristobulus first appears as the Praetorian prefect under the emperor ...

(295 - 296) *

Cassius Dio Lucius Cassius Dio (), also known as Dio Cassius ( ), was a Roman historian and senator of maternal Greek origin. He published 80 volumes of the history on ancient Rome, beginning with the arrival of Aeneas in Italy. The volumes documented the ...

(296 - 297) *

Afranius Hannibalianus Afranius Hannibalianus (fl. 3rd century) was the consul of 292 AD, a praetorian prefect, a senator and a military officer and commander. Biography Believed to belong to a family who originated from the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, Hanni ...

(297 - 298) * Lucius Artorius Pius Maximus (298 - 299) * Anicius Faustus (299 - 300)

4th century

* Pompeius Appius Faustinus (Mar 300 - 301) *

Lucius Aelius Helvius Dionysius Lucius Aelius Helvius Dionysius was a Roman statesman who served as the Proconsul of Africa from 296 to 300 and as the ''Praefectus urbi'' from 301 to 302."Proconsuls of Africa, 337-392", ''Phoenix'', 39 (1985), pp. 144-153 References Further r ...

(301 - Feb 302) *

Nummius Tuscus Nummius Tuscus (fl. late 3rd to early 4th century) was a Roman senator who was appointed consul in AD 295. Biography A member of the Gens Nummii, Nummius Tuscus was probably the son of Marcus Nummius Tuscus, the consul of 258. He himself was app ...

(Feb 302 - Sept 303) * Junius Tiberianus (Sept 303 - Jan 304) * Aradius Rufinus (Jan 304 - Feb 305; first term) *

Titus Flavius Postumius Titianus Titus Flavius Postumius Titianus (fl. late 3rd and 4th century AD) was a Roman statesman who served as senator and consul suffectus. Biography Postumius Titianus was a member of the third century ‘’gens Postumii’’, which was not descend ...

(Feb 305 - Mar 306) * Gaius Annius Anullinus (Mar 306 - Aug 307) * Attius Insteius Tertullus (Aug 307 – Apr 308) * Statius Rufinus (Apr 308 - Oct 309) * Aurelius Hermogenian (Oct 309 - Oct 310) * G. Ceionius Rufius Volusianus I (Oct 310 - Oct 311) *

Junius Flavianus Junius often refers to: * Junius (writer), the pseudonym of an 18th-century British political writer of strongly Whig principles * The nomen of the ancient Roman * or , the month of June on the ancient Roman calendar * Rosa Luxemburg's '' Junius P ...

(Oct 311 - Feb 312) * Aradius Rufinus (Feb – Oct 312; second term) * Gaius Annius Anullinus (Oct – Nov 312; second term) * Aradius Rufinus (Nov 312 – Dec 313; third term) * G. Ceionius Rufius Volusianus II (Dec 313 – Aug 315) * Gaius Vettius Cossinius Rufinus (Aug 315 – Aug 316) *

Ovinius Gallicanus Ovinius Gallicanus (''floruit'' 293317) was a senator of the Roman Empire, probably the first Christian Roman consul. In 293 or 300 he was the ''curator'' of Teanum Sidicinum. On 4 August 316 he is attested as ''praefectus urbi'' of Rome, as succes ...

(Aug 316 – May 317) * Septimius Bassus (May 317 – Sept 319) *

Valerius Maximus Basilius Valerius Maximus Basilius ( 319–323) was a prominent Roman senator during the reign of the emperor Constantine I. Life A pagan, he must have had a successful political career, as he managed to be appointed urban prefect of Rome (), serving fro ...

(Sept 319 – Sept 323) * Locrius Verinus (Sept 323 – Jan 325) * Acilius Severus (Jan 325 – Nov 326) *

Amnius Anicius Julianus Amnius Anicius Julianus ( 322–329) was a politician of the Roman Empire. Biography Anicius Julianus was consul in 322 with Petronius Probianus, ''praefectus urbi Romae'' between 326 and 329. He is identified with the proconsul of Africa wh ...

(Nov 326 – Sept 329) * Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius (Sept – Oct 329; first term) *

Petronius Probianus Petronius Probianus ( 315–331 AD) was a politician of the Roman Empire. Life Probianus was a member of the '' Petronii Probi'', a family of the senatorial aristocracy. He was the son of Pompeius Probus, consul in 310, the father of Petroniu ...

(Oct 329 – Apr 331) * Sex. Anicius Paulinus (Apr 331 – Apr 333) * Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius (Apr – May 333; second term) * Marcus Ceionius Julianus (May 333 – Apr 334) * Amnius Anicius Paulinus (Apr 334 – Dec 335) *

Ceionius Rufius Albinus Ceionius Rufius Albinus (fl. 4th century) was a Roman senator who was appointed consul in 335. Life and career Rufius Albinus was the son of Gaius Ceionius Rufius Volusianus who was consul in 311 and 314 before being exiled. In 335 Rufius Albinus ...

(Dec 335 – Mar 337) * L. Aradius Valerius Proculus I (Mar 337 – Jan 338) * Mecilius Hilarianus (Jan 338 – Jul 339) *

Lucius Turcius Apronianus Lucius ( el, Λούκιος ''Loukios''; ett, Luvcie) is a male given name derived from ''Lucius'' (abbreviated ''L.''), one of the small group of common Latin forenames (''praenomina'') found in the culture of ancient Rome. Lucius derives from L ...

(Jul – Oct 339) *

Fabius Titianus In Roman mythology, Fabius was the son of Hercules and an unnamed mother. In "The Life of Fabius Maximus" from the '' Parallel Lives'' by Plutarch, Fabius, the first of his name, was the son of Hercules by a nymph or a woman native to the country ...

I (Oct 339 – Feb 341; first term) *

Aurelius Celsinus Aurelius Celsinus (''floruit'' 341–351) was a politician of the Roman Empire. Life He was related to the Symmachi. He might have been the son of Aurelius Valerius Tullianus Symmachus and the brother of Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus, fath ...

I (Feb 341 – Apr 342; first term) * Q. Flavius Maesius Egnatius Lollianus (Apr – Jul 342) * Aconius Catullinus Philomatius (Jul 342 – Apr 344) * Quintus Rusticus (Apr 344 – Jul 345) * Petronius Probinus (Jul 345 – Dec 346) * M. Furius Placidus (Dec 346 – Jun 347) *

Ulpius Limenius Ulpius Limenius (died 8 April AD 349) was a Roman politician who was appointed consul in AD 349. Biography Presumably a member of the Nobiles and a member of the eastern Senate, Limenius was appointed Proconsul of Constantinople in AD 342. He was ...

(Jun 347 – Apr 349) * Hermogenes (May 349 – Feb 350) *

II (Feb 350 – Mar 351) *

II (Mar – May 351) *

Caelius Probatus The name Caelius (sometimes spelled Coelius) is an ancient Roman nomen and may refer to: *Caelius Vibenna (8th century BC), a noble Etruscan *Gaius Coelius Caldus or Caelius (2nd–1st century BC), a consul of the Roman Republic *Marcus Caelius Ru ...

(May – Jun 351) *

Clodius Celsinus Adelphius Clodius Celsinus Adelphius or Adelfius (''fl.'' 333–351) was a politician of the Roman Empire. Life He was married to the poet Faltonia Betitia Proba, and they had two sons, Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius (consul in 379) and Falton ...

(Jun – Dec 351) * L. Aradius Valerius Proculus II (Dec 351 – Sept 352) *

Septimius Mnasea Septimus or Septimius may refer to: Romans People in Ancient Rome: * Septimus (praenomen), a praenomen or Roman personal name * Septimia gens, an ancient Roman family * Lucius Septimius, one of the assassins of Pompey the Great (d. 48 BC). * Sept ...

(Sept 352) *

Neratius Cerealis Neratius (or Naeratius) Cerealis ( 328–358) was a Roman senator and politician, ''Praefectus urbi'' and Consul. Biography He was the brother of Galla, wife of Julius Constantius, and half-brother of Vulcacius Rufinus, and probably had a s ...

(Sept 352 – Dec 353) *

Memmius Vitrasius Orfitus Memmius Vitrasius Orfitus Honorius (died c. 369) was a Roman politician. Biography Orfitus came from a noble family, and started his career at a relatively young age. He held the posts of ''quaestor'' and ''praetor'' before becoming ''consulari ...

I (Dec 353 – Jul 355) * Flavius Leontius (Jul 355 (or after) – Nov 356) *

II (Jan 357 – Mar 359) * Junius Bassus Theotecnius (359) * Tertullus (359 – autumn 361) *

Maximus Maximus (Hellenised as Maximos) is the Latin term for "greatest" or "largest". In this connection it may refer to: * Circus Maximus (disambiguation) * Pontifex maximus, the highest priest of the College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome People Roman h ...

(autumn 361 – Jan 362) * Lucius Turcius Apronianus Asterius (Dec 362 – early 364) *

Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus Phosphorius (died 376) was an aristocrat of the Roman Empire, and father of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus. Biography A member of the aristocratic family of the Symmachi, he was the son of Aurelius Valerius Tullia ...

(Apr 364 – Mar 365) *

Gaius Ceionius Rufius Volusianus Lampadius Gaius, sometimes spelled ''Gajus'', Kaius, Cajus, Caius, was a common Latin praenomen; see Gaius (praenomen). People * Gaius (jurist) (), Roman jurist *Gaius Acilius *Gaius Antonius *Gaius Antonius Hybrida *Gaius Asinius Gallus *Gaius Asinius P ...

(Apr – Sept 365) * Viventius (Oct 365 – May 367) *

Vettius Agorius Praetextatus Vettius Agorius Praetextatus (ca. 315 – 384) was a wealthy pagan aristocrat in the 4th-century Roman Empire, and a high priest in the cults of numerous gods. He served as the praetorian prefect at the court of Emperor Valentinian II in 384 unti ...

(Aug 367 – Sept 368) *

Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius (''floruit'' 361384) was a Roman politician, ''praefectus urbi'' of Rome from 368 to 370 and Roman consul in 379. Olybrius has been characterized as belonging to "the breed of flexible politicians who did well ...

(Jan 369 – Aug 370) * Publius Ampelius (Jan 371 – Jul 372) * Bappo (late 372 – 372/373) * Principius (373) *

Flavius Eupraxius The gens Flavia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Its members are first mentioned during the last three centuries of the Republic. The first of the Flavii to achieve prominence was Marcus Flavius, tribune of the plebs in 327 and 323 BC; ...

(374) * Claudius Hermogenianus Caesarius (374) * Tanaucius Isfalangius (372/375) * Tarracius Bassus (after 374) * Aradius Rufinus (376) * Gracchus (376–377) * Gabinius Vettius Probianus (377) *

Martinianus Martinian ( la, Martinianus; died in 325) was Roman emperor from July to September 324. He was raised to the purple by the emperor Licinius, whom he had hitherto served as a senior bureaucrat, during Licinius's civil war against the emperor Con ...

(378) * Flavius Hypatius (379) * Magnus Arborius (380) *

Anicius Paulinus ''Anicius'' is a monotypic genus of Mexican jumping spiders containing the single species, ''Anicius dolius''. It was first described by Ralph Vary Chamberlin in 1925, and is only found in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the U ...

(380) *

Lucius Valerius Septimius Bassus Lucius Valerius Septimius Bassus (c. 328 - aft. 379 or 383) was a Roman politician. Life He was the son of Valerius Maximus (praetorian prefect), Valerius Maximus and first wife Septimia Bassa. He was ''praefectus urbi'' Romae under the emperors ...

(379/383) * Valerianus (381) *

Afranius Syagrius Afranius Syagrius ( 345–382) was a Roman politician and administrator. Life Afranius was a member of the Roman aristocratic family of the Syagrii, which originated in Lyon.Valerius Severus Flavius Valerius Severus (died September 307), also called Severus II, was a Roman emperor from 306 to 307. After failing to besiege Rome, he fled to Ravenna. It is thought that he was killed there or executed near Rome. Background and early ...

(382) * Anicius Auchenius Bassus (382–383) * Aventius (383–384) *

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus Quintus Aurelius Symmachus signo Eusebius (, ; c. 345 – 402) was a Roman statesman, orator, and man of letters. He held the offices of governor of proconsular Africa in 373, urban prefect of Rome in 384 and 385, and consul in 391. Symmachus s ...

(summer 384 – Jan/Feb 385) * Pinianus (Feb 385 – Feb 387) * Sallustius (387) * Sextius Rusticus Julianus (387/388) *

Sextus Aurelius Victor Sextus Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390) was a historian and politician of the Roman Empire. Victor was the author of a short history of imperial Rome, entitled ''De Caesaribus'' and covering the period from Augustus to Constantius II. The work w ...

(c. 389) *

(Jun 389 – Feb 391) * Faltonius Probus Alypius (391) * Flavius Philippus (391) * Basilius (395) * Andromachus (395) *

Florentinus Florentinus was a Roman politician who served as Urban prefect of Rome from 395 to 397 AD. Career A native of Augusta Treverorum, Florentinus was possibly a Notarius around 379/380 AD. He was the Comes sacrarum largitionum in the west from 385 to 3 ...

(395 – 397) * Lampadius (Jan – Mar 398) * Felix (Mar 398) * Nicomachus Flavianus (399–400; first term)

5th century

Protadius Protadius (died 606) was the mayor of the palace of Burgundy from 604, when he displaced his rival Berthoald, until his death two years later. He was originally the noble lover of Brunhilda, the grandmother of and regent for King Theuderic II. ...

(400 - 401) * Flavius Macrobius Longinianus (401 - 402) *

Caecina Decius Albinus Caecina may refer to: * Caecinia gens, an ancient Roman family * ''Caecina'' (genus), a genus of assassin bugs * Cecina, Tuscany, Italy See also * Cecina (disambiguation) Cecina may refer to: * Cecina (meat), a Spanish and Mexican culinary spec ...

(402) * Postumius Lampadius (403 - 406; second term) *

Flavius Pisidius Romulus The gens Flavia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Its members are first mentioned during the last three centuries of the Republic. The first of the Flavii to achieve prominence was Marcus Flavius, tribune of the plebs in 327 and 323 BC; ...

(406) *

Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

(407) *

Hilarius Hilarius is the given name of: * Hilarius of Aquileia (died c. 284), saint, bishop of Aquileia, Italy * Hilarius or Hilary of Poitiers (c. 310 – c. 367), Bishop of Poitiers and Doctor of the Church * Hilary the Deacon (Latin: Hilarius Diacon ...

(408) * Nicomachus Flavianus (408; second term) *

Gabinius Barbarus Pompeianus Gabinius Barbarus Pompeianus (died in Rome, February 409 AD) was a politician of the Western Roman Empire, ''praefectus urbi'' of Rome during the first siege of Alaric I. Pompeianus owned an estate that bounded with Quintus Aurelius Symmachus' in B ...

(408 - 409) *

Priscus Attalus Priscus Attalus (Greek: Πρίσκος Άτταλος, died after 416) was twice Roman usurper (in 409–10 and in 414–15), against Emperor Honorius, with Visigothic support. He was the last non-Christian pretender to the Roman imperial offi ...

(409) *

Marcianus Marcian (; la, Marcianus, link=no; grc-gre, Μαρκιανός, link=no ; 392 – 27 January 457) was Roman emperor of the Byzantine Empire, East from 450 to 457. Very little of his life before becoming emperor is known, other than that he wa ...

(409 - 410) * Bonosianus (410 - 411) * Palmatus (412) * Flavius Annius Eucharius Epiphanius (412 - 414) *

Rutilius Claudius Namatianus Rutilius Claudius Namatianus (fl. 5th century) was a Roman Imperial poet, best known for his Latin poem, ''De reditu suo'', in elegiac metre, describing a coastal voyage from Rome to Gaul in 416. The poem was in two books; the exordium of the firs ...

(414) * Caecina Decius Acinatius Albinus (414) *

Gracchus The Gracchi brothers were two Roman brothers, sons of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus who was consul in 177 BC. Tiberius, the elder brother, was tribune of the plebs in 133 BC and Gaius, the younger brother, was tribune a decade later in ...

(415) * Probianus (416) * Rufius Antonius Agrypnius Volusianus (417 - 418) *

Aurelius Anicius Symmachus Aurelius Anicius Symmachus ( 415–420) was a politician of the Western Roman Empire belonging to the Roman families of the Anicii and of the Symmachi. In 415 he was proconsul of Africa and between 24 December 418 and January 420 he was ''praefectu ...

(418 - 420) *

Petronius Maximus Petronius Maximus ( 39731 May 455) was Roman emperor of the West for two and a half months in 455. A wealthy senator and a prominent aristocrat, he was instrumental in the murders of the Western Roman ''magister militum'', Aëtius, and the W ...

(420 - 421; first term) * Flavius Albinus (426) *

(sometime between 421 and 439; second term) *

Flavius Paulus Paulus or Paul was a 7th-century Roman general in service of the Visigothic Kingdom. In 673, Paulus accompanied the Visigothic king Wamba (672–680) on a campaign against the Basques, but when news reached them of a revolt led by the count Hi ...

(438) *

Pierius Pierius was a Christian priest and probably head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria, conjointly with Achillas. He flourished while Theonas was bishop of Alexandria, and died at Rome after 309. The ''Roman Martyrology'' commemorates him on ...

(440) * Fonteius Litorius Auxentius (441; first term) * Storacius (443) *

Honoratus Honoratus (french: Saint Honorat; c. 350 – 6 January 429) was the founder of Lérins Abbey who later became an early Archbishop of Arles. He is honored as a saint in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Life Honoratus was born in the ...

(sometime between 443 and 449) * Fonteius Litorius Auxentius (445; second term) * Auxiliaris (445) * Flavius Eurycles Epityncanus (450) * Valerius Faltonius Adelphius (451; third term) * Memmius Aemilius Trygetius (452) * Aemilianus (458) * Gaius Sollius Modestus Apollinaris Sidonius (468 - 469) *

Messius Phoebus Severus Messius Phoebus Severus (''floruit'' 469–470) was a Roman politician and philosopher. He was appointed consul with Flavius Iordanes for 470. Biography Born in Rome, he studied at the school of the neoplatonist philosopher Proclus, in Alexan ...

(470) * Flavius Eugenius Asellus (470 - 471) * Publius Valerius Rufinus (471 - 472) * Castalius Innocentius Audax (474 - 475) *

Anicius Acilius Aginantius Faustus Anicius Acilius Aginantius (or Aginatius) Faustus ( 483–508), also known as Faustus ''albus'' ("white"), was a Roman politician under Odoacer's rule. His brothers included Rufius Achilius Maecius Placidus, and Rufius Achilius Sividius. Life F ...

(sometime between 475 and 482) *

Decius Marius Venantius Basilius Decius Marius Venantius Basilius ( 484) was a Roman official under Odoacer's rule. Biography He was the son of Caecina Decius Basilius and the brother of Caecina Mavortius Basilius Decius and Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius, all Roman Consuls. ...

(484) *

Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus (died 526) was a 6th-century Roman aristocrat, an historian and a supporter of Nicene Christianity. He was a patron of secular learning, and became the consul for the year 485. He supported Pope Symmachus in the ...

(485) *

Caecina Mavortius Basilius Decius Caecina Mavortius Basilius Decius ( 486–510) was a Roman politician under Odoacer's rule. He was consul and ''Praefectus urbi'' of Rome in 486 and Praetorian prefect of Italy from 486 to 493. Life Decius was the son of Caecina Decius Basiliu ...

(486) * Flavius Nar. Manlius Boethius (487, for the second time) *

Rufius Achilius Sividius Rufius Achilius Sividius ( 483–488) was a Roman senator under Odoacer's rule. His brothers included Rufius Achilius Maecius Placidus, and Anicius Acilius Aginantius Faustus. Biography He is defined as " quaestor" (perhaps ''quaestor sacri ...

(488; second term) * Claudius Julius Eclesius Dynamius (488) Of uncertain date in the 5th century * Claudius Lachanius (late 4th or early 5th century) * Junius Pomponius Ammonius (4th or 5th century) * Junius Valerius Bellicus (sometime between 408 and 423) * Anicius Acilius Glabrio Faustus (three terms between 408 and 437) *

Euthymius Euthymius the Great (377 – 20 January 473) was an abbot in Palestine. He is venerated in both Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Euthymius' ''vita'' was written by Cyril of Skythopolis, who describes him as the founder of several ...

(early or mid 5th century) * Julius Agrius Tarrutenius Marcianus (early or mid 5th century) * Flavius Peregrinus Saturninus (two terms in the early or mid 5th century) * Paulinus (sometime between 425 and 455) * Flavius Olbius Auxentius Draucus (sometime between 425 and 450) * Neuthius (sometime between 426 and 443) *

Rufius Caecina Felix Lampadius The gens Rufia, occasionally spelled Ruffia, was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are not mentioned in history until imperial times, and they achieved little prominence until the late third century, from which time ...

(sometime between 429 and 450) *

Appius Nicomachus Dexter Appius Nicomachus Dexter (''floruit'' before 432 AD) was a politician of the Western Roman Empire. Biography Dexter belonged to the ''Nicomachi'', an influential family of senatorial rank. Among his ancestors there was evidently Appius Claudius ...

(before 432) * Petronius Perpenna Magnus Quadratinus (before 443) *

Rufius Praetextatus Postumianus The gens Rufia, occasionally spelled Ruffia, was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are not mentioned in history until imperial times, and they achieved little prominence until the late third century, from which time ...

(two terms before 448) *

Flavius Rufius Opilio The gens Flavia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Its members are first mentioned during the last three centuries of the Republic. The first of the Flavii to achieve prominence was Marcus Flavius, tribune of the plebs in 327 and 323 BC; h ...

(after 450) * Valerius Faltonius Adelphius (two terms before 451) * Rufius Viventius Gallus (mid 5th century) * Junius Valentinus (sometime between 455 and 476) * Probinus (sometime between 457 and 472) * Plotius Eustathius (sometime between 457 and 472) * Flavius Synesius Gennadius Paulus (before 467) * Aggerius (before 483) * Venantius Severinus Faustus (before 483) * Glabrio Venantius Faustus (before 483) * Rufius Synesius Hadirianus (before 483) * Rufius Valerius Messala (before 483) * Fabius Felix Passifilius Paulinus (before 483) * Titus Haditanus Secundus (before 483) * Memmius Aemilius Trygetius (before 483) * Flavius Nar. Manlius Boethius (before 487; first time) (487; second time) (he served as consul in 487) *

(before 488; first term) (488; second term) (he served as consul in 488) * Claudius Iulius Ecclesius Dynamius (circa 488) (he served as consul in 488) * Flavius Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius (before 494) (he served as consul in 494)

6th century

(502 - 503) (he had served as consul in 483) * Constantius (506 - 507) * Flavius Agapitus (508 - 509) (he served as consul in 517) * Artemiodorus (509 - 510) * Argolicus (510 - 511) *

Eusebius Eusebius of Caesarea (; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος ; 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus (from the grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου), was a Greek historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian ...

(523 - 524) *

Reparatus Reparatus (died 539) was a Roman aristocrat, and politician under Ostrogothic rule. He held the offices of Urban prefect (527) and Praetorian prefect of Italy. Reparatus was the brother of Pope Vigilius; according to the ''Liber pontificalis'', th ...

(527) * Salventius (533) * Honorius (535/536) * Gregorius Anicius ?(573)

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 ...

, III, 549-551 (he was pope from 590 until his death in 604) Of uncertain date in the 6th century * Catulinus (late 5th or early 6th century) * Bacauda (5th or 6th century) * Julius Felix Campanianus (5th or 6th century) * Justinianus (5th or 6th century) * Valerius Florianus (sometime between 491 and 518)

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