Anicius Petronius Probus ( 395–406 AD) was a politician of the

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Biography

A member of the ''gens'' Anicia, he was the son of

Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus ( 358–390) was a leading Roman aristocrat of the later 4th century AD, renowned for his wealth, power and social connections. The son of the consul Petronius Probinus, he married Anicia Faltonia Proba and ...

. (consul in 371) and of Anicia Faltonia Proba;. his elder brothers were Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius and Anicius Probinus (consuls in 395), and his sister was Anicia Proba.

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, ''Letters'', 130.7 In 395, he is attested as

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elected by the Emperor. In 406, Anicius was consul contemporaneously with the Eastern Emperor

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, VI.3.1. One of his

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s is preserved at the ''Museo del tesoro della cattedrale di Aosta'', and depicts Emperor

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. Probus was a

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* , an inscription set up by Probus and his brother Probinus in honour of their mother. * {{end 4th-century Christians 4th-century Romans 5th-century Christians 5th-century Roman consuls Probus, Petronius Petronii