Lucillianus ( 358–363 AD) was a Roman military commander during the emperor

Julian Julian may refer to: People * Julian (emperor) (331–363), Roman emperor from 361 to 363 * Julian (Rome), referring to the Roman gens Julia, with imperial dynasty offshoots * Saint Julian (disambiguation), several Christian saints * Julian (give ...

's disastrous expedition against

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in 363. Harries identifies Lucillianus as one of the officials whom the emperor Constantius II sent in 358 to the court of his cousin Julian, then ruling as the emperor's deputy (''Caesar'') in Gaul, to serve as his adviser and keep watch over him. Olszaniec tentatively assigns this role to another Lucillianus instead, but the authors of the ''PLRE'' state that the latter was in Persia as an envoy at the time. Lucillianus may have been Julian's (quaestor of the sacred palace), but Olszaniec rejects this. When the now-emperor Julian began his invasion of Persia in 363, Lucillianus was given command of the Roman fleet in the

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, and the rank of . Lucillianus was present at the meeting between Julian and

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leaders on 28 March, and was then sent ahead with a small picked force to capture enemy strongholds. His subsequent fate is unknown, and he may have died in the expedition, or perhaps dismissed by the emperor.

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* * * * {{cite journal , last=Woods , year=1998 , first=David , title=The Role of the ''Comes'' Lucillianus during Julian's Persian Expedition , journal=L'Antiquité Classique , volume=67 , pages=243–248 , doi=10.3406/antiq.1998.1315 , issn=0770-2817 , url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/antiq_0770-2817_1998_num_67_1_1315 , ref={{sfnref, Woods 4th-century Romans Comites rei militaris Generals of Julian People of the Roman–Sasanian Wars Romans from unknown gentes