Decius Marius Venantius Basilius ( 484) was a Roman official under

Odoacer Odoacer ( ; – 15 March 493 AD), also spelled Odovacer or Odovacar, was a soldier and statesman of barbarian background, who deposed the child emperor Romulus Augustulus and became Rex/Dux (476–493). Odoacer's overthrow of Romulus August ...

's rule.

Biography

He was the son of Caecina Decius Basilius and the brother of

Caecina Mavortius Basilius Decius Caecina Mavortius Basilius Decius ( 486–510) was a Roman politician under Odoacer's rule. He was consul and ''Praefectus urbi'' of Rome in 486 and Praetorian prefect of Italy from 486 to 493. Life Decius was the son of Caecina Decius Basilius ...

and

Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius ( 480–483), was a Roman politician. He was the first consul appointed under Odoacer's rule (480), and afterwards was Praetorian prefect of Italy.John Moorhead"The Decii under Theoderic" '' Historia: Zeitschrift f ...

, all

Roman Consul A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC), and ancient Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum'' (an ascending sequence of public offices to which politic ...

Basilius Venantius (Decius) Basilius Venantius (''floruit'' 508–533), was a Roman aristocrat who lived during Ostrogothic rule. Biography He was probably the son of Decius Marius Venantius Basilius, consul in 484. Venantius had several sons who became consuls, i ...

iunior, Consul in 508, was probably his son. Venantius was ''

Praefectus urbi The ''praefectus urbanus'', also called ''praefectus urbi'' or urban prefect in English, was prefect of the city of Rome, and later also of Constantinople. The office originated under the Roman kings, continued during the Republic and Empire, a ...

'' and Consul in 484, with

Theoderic the Great Theodoric (or Theoderic) the Great (454 – 30 August 526), also called Theodoric the Amal ( got, , *Þiudareiks; Greek: , romanized: ; Latin: ), was king of the Ostrogoths (471–526), and ruler of the independent Ostrogothic Kingdom of Ita ...

as colleague. He financed the restoration of the damages made by an earthquake to the

Colosseum The Colosseum ( ; it, Colosseo ) is an oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world ...

of Rome; two inscriptions are still extant, reading ( b and c):

Bibliography

* Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Decius Marius Venantius Basilius 13", ''

The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire ''Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'' (abbreviated as ''PLRE'') is a work of Roman prosopography published in a set of three volumes collectively describing many of the people attested to have lived in the Roman Empire from AD 260, the date ...

'', Cambridge University Press, 1992, , p. 218. {{DEFAULTSORT:Basilius, Decius Marius Venantius 5th-century Romans 5th-century Roman consuls Decii Marii Imperial Roman consuls Patricii Urban prefects of Rome