Agilo was an
Alemannic warrior who served multiple
Roman emperors in the 4th century. Originally ''tribunus stabuli'' (354) and then ''tribunus gentilium et scutariorum'' (354–360), he was promoted to ''
magister peditum'' (360–362). Under
Constantius II
Constantius II (; ; 7 August 317 – 3 November 361) was Roman emperor from 337 to 361. His reign saw constant warfare on the borders against the Sasanian Empire and Germanic peoples, while internally the Roman Empire went through repeated civ ...
he was sent to protect the frontier on the
Tigris
The Tigris ( ; see #Etymology, below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian Desert, Syrian and Arabia ...
, while
Julian appointed him to the
Commission of Chalcedon but passed him over for military service. In 365 the usurper
Procopius
Procopius of Caesarea (; ''Prokópios ho Kaisareús''; ; – 565) was a prominent Late antiquity, late antique Byzantine Greeks, Greek scholar and historian from Caesarea Maritima. Accompanying the Roman general Belisarius in Justinian I, Empe ...
recruited Agilo to his cause; Agilo eventually defected to the legitimate emperor
Valens
Valens (; ; 328 – 9 August 378) was Roman emperor from 364 to 378. Following a largely unremarkable military career, he was named co-emperor by his elder brother Valentinian I, who gave him the Byzantine Empire, eastern half of the Roman Em ...
in 366.
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* Otto Seeck: Agilo. in: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Band I,1, Stuttgart 1893, col. 809.
4th-century Germanic people
Alemannic warriors
Magistri peditum
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