The Ascendancy of Ausonius
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23724092 |
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| Authors | John A Matthews (0000-0002-2610-863X, corresponding author), John Matthews (0000-0003-3787-1443) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Pages | 56-87 |
| Publication date | 1990-09-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Western aristocracies and imperial court, A.D. 364-425 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198144991.003.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W4388341968 |
| ISBN | 9780198144991 |
| Language | EN |
The prosecutions of senators, for which the later years of Valcntinian’s government at Rome won their reputation as years of terror, and the emperor’s agents their name for congenital brutality, arose from trivial and accidental origins.1 A complaint laid by a certain Chilo before the prefect of Rome, Q. Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius (368−70), claimed that he and his wife, Maxima, had been attacked by a conspiracy involving sorcery. The charges implicated in the first instance a musician, a wrestler, and a fortune-teller, alleging that they had used ‘venena’—that is, magic potions—against the lives of Chilo and Maxima.
Ancient history · Complaint · Emperor · MAGIC (telescope) · Physics · Political science · Reputation · Wife · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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