:''This article deals with the censor. For the

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(335–337) Flavius Dalmatius, son of the censor, see

Dalmatius :''This article deals with the Caesar (335-337). For the censor Flavius Dalmatius, father of the Caesar, see Flavius Dalmatius. For saints with this name, see Saint Dalmatius (disambiguation).'' Flavius Dalmatius (died June 337), often spelled ...

.'' Flavius Dalmatius (died 337), also known as Dalmatius the Censor, was a censor (333), and a member of the

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, which ruled over the

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at the beginning of the 4th century. Dalmatius was the son of

Constantius Chlorus Flavius Valerius Constantius ( – 25 July 306), also called Constantius I, was a Roman emperor from 305 to 306. He was one of the four original members of the Tetrarchy established by Diocletian, first serving as Caesar (title), ''caesar'' ...

and

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, and thus half-brother of the Emperor

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. Dalmatius spent his youth in the Gallic Tolosa. It is probable that his two sons,

and Hannibalianus, were born here. During the mid-320s, Flavius Dalmatius returned to

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, to the court of his half-brother, and was appointed consul and censor in 333. In

Antioch Antioch on the Orontes (; , ) "Antioch on Daphne"; or "Antioch the Great"; ; ; ; ; ; ; . was a Hellenistic Greek city founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC. One of the most important Greek cities of the Hellenistic period, it served as ...

, Flavius was responsible for the security of the eastern borders of the realm. During this period, he examined the case of bishop

Athanasius of Alexandria Athanasius I of Alexandria ( – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor, or, among Coptic Christians, Athanasius the Apostolic, was a Christian theologian and the 20th patriarch of Alexandria (as Athanasius ...

, an important opponent of

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, who was accused of murder. In 334, Flavius suppressed the revolt of Calocaerus, who had proclaimed himself emperor in

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. In the following year he sent some soldiers to the council of Tyros to save the life of Athanasius. His two sons were appointed to important offices under Constantine's administration, but Flavius Dalmatius and his sons were killed in the purges that followed the Emperor's death in May 337.Julian, "Letter to the senate and people of Athens", 270.

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