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Personal data Clodius Celsinus Adelphius 

• He was born in the year 301 in Rome, Italië.
• Profession: Prefect of Rome/praefectus urbi in 351.
• He died in Rome, Italië.
• A child of Clodius Celsinus

Household of Clodius Celsinus Adelphius

He is married to Faltonia Betitia Proba.

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius  ± 335-± 384 
2. Faltonius Probus Alypius  < 360-> 397

Notes about Clodius Celsinus Adelphius

Clodius Celsinus Adelphius or Adelfius (333-351) was a politician of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire">Roman Empire. He was married to the poet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faltonia_Betitia_Proba">Faltonia Betitia Proba, and they had two sons, # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Clodius_Hermogenianus_Olybrius">Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius(consul in 379) and # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faltonius_Probus_Alypius">Faltonius Probus Alypius. His wife converted to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity">Christianity after 353, and  later Celsinus probably converted too; he probably dedicated a column ad altare majus S. Anastasiae, near the main altar of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_Sant%27Anastasia_al_Palatino">church of Sant'Anastasia, or that was his and his wife's funerary inscription. Before 333, Adelphius as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrector#Roman_Antiquity">corrector of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apulia_et_Calabria">Apulia et Calabria, with the see of his office at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneventum">Beneventum, where he was a patron too. In 351 he was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proconsul">proconsul of an unknown province, probably http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(Roman_province)">Africa, and he was already married to Proba. From 7 June to 18 Dec 351 he is attested as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praefectus_urbi">praefectus urbi of Rome, under the usurper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnentius">Magnentius. In this period he was accused by some Dorus of conspiring against Magnentius;  it is probable that this accusation was true, as shown by the fact that Proba wrote a poem celebrating Emperor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantius_II">Constantius II's victory over the usurper.

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