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Personal data Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius 

• He was born about 335 in Rome, Italië.
• Profession: in the year 379 consul van het Romeinse Rijk.
• He died about 384 in Rome, Italië.
• A child of Clodius Celsinus Adelphius and Faltonia Betitia Proba

Household of Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius

He is married to Tirrania Anicia Juliana.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Anicia Faltonia Proba   

Notes about Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius

 Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius (floruit 361-384) was a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire">Roman politician, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praefectus_urbi">praefectus urbi of Rome in 368–370 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_consul">Roman consul in 379. Olybrius has been characterized as belonging to "the breed of flexible politicians who did well both under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinian_I">Valentinian I [...] and under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratian">Gratian." Olybrius was a member of the senatorial aristocracy of Rome. He was the son of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clodius_Celsinus_Adelphius">Clodius Celsinus Adelphius, who had been http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praefectus_urbi">praefectus urbi in 351, and of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faltonia_Betitia_Proba">Faltonia Betitia Proba, a poetess. His brother, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faltonius_Probus_Alypius">Faltonius Probus Alypius, was praefectus urbi of Rome in 391.  Proba  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_to_Christianity">converted  to  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity">Christianity, and later had his husband and his sons, Olybrius included, convert to the same religion. Olybrius married http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tirrania_Anicia_Juliana&action=edit&redlink=1">Tirrania Anicia Juliana, a member of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anicia_(gens)">Anicia gens, whose father,  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anicius_Auchenius_Bassus_(consul_408)">Anicius Auchenius Bassus, waspraefectus urbi of Rome in 382 and consul in 408.  Olybrius and Juliana had a daughter, # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anicia_Faltonia_Proba">Anicia Faltonia Proba. He reached the rank of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vir_clarissimus">vir clarissimus, then  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consularis">consularis of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campania_(Roman_province)">Campania (before 361 he is attested as patron of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formia">Formia),http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proconsul">proconsul of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Province">Africa Province (361), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praefectus_urbi">praefectus urbi of Rome (369-370), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_prefect_of_Illyricum">Praetorian prefect of Illyricum, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_prefect_of_the_East">Praetorian prefect of the East, and consul in 379. He died between 384 and 395. During his office as praefectus urbi, which was generally calm and balanced, he arrested two suspected poisoners. He led the investigations, but he got ill and they passed to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praefectus_annonae">praefectus annonae, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximinus_(praetorian_prefect)">Maximinus. He was then succeeded byhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Publius_Ampelius&action=edit&redlink=1">Publius Ampelius. In his consulate he was posterior to his colleague, the poet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausonius">Ausonius, because he was the younger prefect. Ausonius had been in fact appointed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_prefect_of_Gaul">Praetorian prefect of Gaul in late 377. Olybrius had been appointed prefect of Illyricum by emperor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratian">Gratian probably at the beginning of 378, in the wake of the preparations for the war against the Goths in Thracia that led to the defeat and death of emperor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valens">Valens in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adrianople_(378)">Battle of Adrianople in the August of that year. It is also known that Olybrius was in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirmium">Sirmium when he was appointed consul by Gratian, who also had already conferred upon Olybrius the Praetorian prefecture of the East. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Aurelius_Symmachus">Quintus Aurelius Symmachus records a trial in which he was a judge. A land-owner called Scirtius had been dispossessed of his property and had complained to Symmachus, who had then issued a decree giving the land back to Scirtius. Symmachus tells that he discovered that Olybrius was behind this misappropriation and that some of agents had tried to avoid the restitution of the stolen property even kidnapping people and bribing witnesses. Thus Olybrius is depicted as violent and greedy. This view is somehow confirmed by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammianus_Marcellinus">Ammianus Marcellinus' description of Olybrius' office as prefect: the historian, in fact, describes Olybrius as overly-interested in luxury. 

Owner's mark for the dog belonging to Quintus, advising them to keep their hands off the dog.

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