Flavius Eustathius (

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: Εύστάθιος, 415–422) was a politician of the

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Biography

In 415-416 he was ''

quaestor sacri palatii The ''quaestor sacri palatii'' (, usually simply ; English: Quaestor of the Sacred Palace) was the senior legal authority in the late Roman Empire and early Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, responsible for drafting laws. In the later Byzantine Empir ...

''; in this capacity he received a copy of a law (''

Codex Theodosianus The ''Codex Theodosianus'' ("Theodosian Code") is a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312. A commission was established by Emperor Theodosius II and his co-emperor Valentinian III on 26 March 429 an ...

'' i.8.1, "''De officio quaestoris''", 15 October 415) he had promoted. Between 420 and 422 he held the high office of

Praetorian prefect of the East The praetorian prefecture of the East, or of the Orient (, ) was one of four large praetorian prefectures into which the Late Roman Empire was divided. As it comprised the larger part of the Eastern Roman Empire, and its seat was at Constantinop ...

, while in 421 he held the

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Bibliography

* Jones, A.H.M., J.R. Martindale, J. Morris, "Fl. Eustathius 12", ''Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', Vol. 2 395–527, Cambridge, 1971–1992, p. 436. {{end 5th-century eastern Roman consuls Praetorian prefects of the East