Flavius Antoninus Messala Vivianus (

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: Βιβιανός; fl. 459–463) was an administrator of the

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Vivianus was the father of Paulus (Consul in 512) and Adamantius. His full nomenclature is found on a monument from an uncertain province, indicating that he held the ranks of ''

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'' and '' patricius'', and that he had been praetorian prefect and ''consul ordinarius''. He was

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 ...

between 459 and 460. In 463 he was appointed Consul by the Eastern court, but he was not recognised in the West, where the only consul was Caecina Decius Basilius.

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* Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Fl. Vivianus 2", ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', Cambridge University Press, 1971, , pp. 1179–1180.

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