Philippus (consul 348)
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Flavius Philippus (Greek: Φίλιππος; {{fl.}} 340s–350s) was an official under the Roman emperor Constantius II.
Biography
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Son of a sausage-maker, Philippus rose in social standing, becoming a notarius.Libanius, Orationes, xlii.24-25. In 346, he became Praetorian Prefect of the East[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104&query=head%3D%2318800 A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, entry on Theodosius II] under Emperor Constantius, allegedly because of the influence of the court eunuchs.Libanius, Orationes, lxxii.11. Philippus then obtained the consulate in 348.
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In 351, when Constantius was facing the rebellion of the usurper Magnentius, Philippus was sent to the rebel camp, formally to negotiate a peace, but actually to discover the military readiness of the enemy.Zosimus, ii.46.2. Philippus then addressed the rebel army, accusing them of ingratitude towards the Constantinian dynasty, and proposing that Magnentius leave Italy and keep only Gaul. When Magnentius tried to take the town of Siscia, Philippus was held hostage by the usurper.Zosimus, ii.46.2-4.
It is unknown whom he married, but his grandson, Flavius Anthemius, also became Praetorian Prefect of the East.
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- {{cite book |last=Morris |first=John |author2=Arnold Hugh Martin Jones |author3=John Robert Martindale |title=The prosopography of the later Roman Empire |year=1992 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-07233-6 |pages=696–697 }}
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{{s-bef | before=Vulcacius Rufinus|before2=Eusebius}}
{{s-ttl | title=Roman consul| years=348 |regent1=Flavius Salia }}
{{s-aft | after=Ulpius Limenius|after2=Aconius Catullinus}}
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Category:4th-century praetorian prefects