Flavius Anicius Olybrius was a Roman politician. He was appointed to the post of Roman consul, consul for the year 526, which he held without a colleague.

Biography

Olybrius, most certainly a westerner, was a member of the prestigious Anicia gens, Anicius family. Following his tenure as consul, which was recognised both in the East and in the West, he held the rank of ''patrikios, patricius''. He was in Rome when the Ostrogoths, Ostrogothic king Totila Sack of Rome (546), captured the city. Olybrius, Anicius Maximus (who had been consul in 523), Rufius Gennadius Probus Orestes (who had been consul in 530) and other ''patricii'' sought refuge in Old St. Peter's Basilica. Captured and sent to Campania, he was still there when Narses conquered Rome in 552; the senators were preparing to return to Rome, but the Goths who guarded them, enraged by the death of Totila, killed them all.Procopius (6th century).
De Bello
' VIII.34.5-6. Translated by H.B. Dewing. Cambridge: Loeb Classical Library, 1928, vol. 5 p. 399ff.

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