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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Eusta'thius (search)
Eusta'thius （*Eu)sta/qios), a Greek physician in the latter half of the fourth century after Christ, to whom two of the letters of St. Basil are addressed. A. D. 373, 374. (vol. iii. Epist. 151, 189, ed. Bened.) In some MSS. he is called by the title "Archiater." The second of these letters is by some persons attributed to St. Gregory of Nyssa, and is accoringly printed in the third volume of his works, p. 6, &c., ed. Bened. [W.A.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lu'cius (search)
f St. Athanasius, vol. i. p. 782, &c. ed. Benedict). When the Arian Valens became emperor of the East, the hopes of Lucius and his party revived; but the emperor would not allow him to return to Alexandria during Athanasius' lifetime, though he obtained the bishopric of Samosata, where, however, he was insulted even by the children of the orthodox party, in consequence of which he incited the officers of the government to inflict some severities on the orthodox. On the death of Athanasius (A. D. 373) and the ordination of Petrus or Peter, whom he had nominated as his successor, Valens sent Lucius to Alexandria, in company with Euzoius, Arian patriarch of Antioch, with orders to the authorities of Alexandria, in consequence of which Peter was deposed and imprisoned, and Lucius forcibly established in his room. A severe persecution of the orthodox then commenced, especially of the priesthood and the nuns, whom Lucius charged with exciting popular disturbances. Peter, who had escaped, fl
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sy'mmachus (search)
nowned seminaries in the world, in early life he became devoted to the liberal arts. By his example and authority he, at a subsequent period, inspired for a time new life and vigour into the literature of his country, which had long been wasting by gradual decay, and seemed now to be fast approaching the hour of dissolution. Having discharged the functions of quaestor and praetor, he was afterwards appointed (A. D. 365, Cod. Theod. 8. tit. 5. s. 25) Corrector of Lucania and the Bruttii; in A. D. 373 (Cod. Theod. 12. tit. 1. s. 73; comp. Symmach. Ep. 8.10, 10.3) he was proconsul of Africa, and became, probably about the same time, a member of the pontifical college. His zeal for the ancient faith of Rome, which exercised throughout life a marked influence on his character, checked for a while the prosperous current of his fortunes, and involved him in danger and disgrace. For having been chosen by the senate on account of his surpassing eloquence to remonstrate with Gratian on the remo
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Themi'stius (search)
delivered in A. D. 367. (Orat. vii.) Ill the next year he accompanied Valens to the Danube in the second campaign of the Gothic war, and delivered before the emperor, at Marcianopolis, a congratulatory oration upon his Quinquennalia, A. D. 368. (Oral. viii.) His next orations are to the young Valentinian upon his consulship, A. D. 369 (Orat. ix.), and to the senate of Constantinople, in the presence of Valens, in honour of the peace granted to the Goths, B. C. 370 (Orat. x.). On March 28, A. D. 373, he addressed to Valens, who was then in Syria, a congratulatory address upon the emperor's entrance on the tenth year of his reign (Orat. xi.). It was also while Valens was in Syria, that Themistius addressed to him an oration by which he persuaded him to cease from his persecution of the Catholic party. (Socrat. H. E. 4.32; Sozom. H. E. 6.36.) It is thought by the best critics that this oration is lost, and that the extant oration to Valens on behalf of religious liberty (Orat. xii.) was
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Traja'nus (search)
Traja'nus comes, a general of the emperor Valens. In A. D. 373 he conducted the war against the Persians, and defeated Sapor with great slaughter. He spent the winter with Valens at Antioch, and in the following year (374) was sent into Armenia, with secret orders to put to death Para the king of Armenia, who was an ally of the Romans, but was distrusted by the emperor. On his arrival in Armenia, Trajan invited Para to a banquet, where he was treacherously murdered by the Roman soldiers. [ARSACIDAE, p. 364. a.] In A. D. 377 the Goths rose in arms, and laid waste Thrace and the surrounding countries. Gratian sent Richomir at the head of a large army to stop their ravages, and Valens despatched forces under the command of Trajan and Profuturus. These three generals fought a battle with the Goths, which lasted from the morning to the evening, without any decisive advantage being gained on either side, according to Ammianus Marcellinus. It would appear, however, that the Romans suffered
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
of submission, one of the tokens of which was the heads of Cylax and Artabanus, for which Sapor had asked, on the ground that they were rather the masters than the servants of Para. Valens upon this sent Arinthaeus into Armenia, who checked the approach of the Persian troops. Sapor complained, but Valens paid no attention to his complaints. The Persian king threatened an attack, but nothing was done this year, though Valens appears to have advanced into Mesopotamia. In the following year A. D. 373, the Roman and the Persian armies met; the Romans, commanded by Comes Trajanus and Vadomarus, formerly a king of the Allemanni. (Amm. Marc. 29.1.) Mesopotamia was apparently the seat of the war. Sapor was defeated, and retired to Ctesiphon after a truce was agreed on. Valens spent the winter at Antioch. During this winter there was a conspiracy to assassinate Valens, to which some persons, said to be pagans, were encouraged by believing that some person whose name began with Theod, was d
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
he appears to have passed the year A. D. 372 there or in the neighbourhood. The emperor did nothing this year that is recorded, except to promulgate a constitution against the Manichaeans, who were always treated with great severity. The year A. D. 373 was the fourth joint consulship of the two Augusti, Valentinian and Valens, and Valentinian spent a great part of this year in Italy. Maximinus was made Praefectus (of Gaul, as Tillemont shows), and this brought about the ruin of Remigius, once of his knavery in the affair of Leptis. The historian, however, has not the gratification of finding any evidence of the punishment of Romanus, either under the reign of Valentinian or that of his successor. Valentinian passed the winter of A. D. 373 at Milan, but he was again at Trèves in May and June of the following year A. D. 374. He was upon the Rhine, probably in the neighbourhood of Bâle, when he received intelligence of the Quadi invading Illyricum : the cause was this. As the emper
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Zo'simus (search)
Zo'simus 2. Prefect of Epeirus under Valentinian and Valens. He is mentioned in connection with some laws promulgated in A. D. 373. (Cod. Theodos. 6. tit. 31, 12. tit. 10.)