Hailing from Cilicia, C. was educated in Antioch (Lib. Ep. 1399). He was a brother of Alypius (Jul. Ep. 9-10). In AD 362-363, he was possibly vicarius Asiae (Lib. Ep. 764; 1384). After the death of Iulianus, he became comes rerum privatarum (Cod. Theod. 10,1,8) and gained great influence at the court of Valens (Lib. Ep. 1449; 1456). As praef. urbis Constan…
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Leppin, Hartmut (Hannover) and
Uthemann, Karl-Heinz (Amsterdam),
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