Darius ( Greek: Δαρείος; ''floruit'' 425–437) was a politician of the

Eastern Roman Empire The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...

. Darius was a Praetorian prefect of the East. He is attested in office between 28 August 436, when the law preserved in '' Codex Theodosianus'' XI 1.37^a was addressed to him, to 16 March 437, the day in which another law, preserved in '' Codex Theodosianus'' VI 23.4^a, was addressed to him. He might have been in office until October 437; in that case, he was in Constantinople and received a copy of the not-yet published ''Codex Theodosianus''. Darius is to be identified with the Praetorian prefect "Damarius", whose wife Aeliana had a vision in 425, in Constantinople. Darius may be the envoy who negotiated on behalf of Placidia with Bonifatius.Bury, LRE 1.247

Sources

* Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Darius 3", ''

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'', Cambridge University Press, 1971, , p. 348. * (1999)
''Sigisvult the Patrician, Maximinus the Arian and political strategems in het Western Roman Empire c. 425-40'', pag 182

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5th-century Byzantine people Praetorian prefects of the East {{Byzantine-bio-stub