Flavius Agapitus ( Latin: Flavius Agapitus ) - Roman politician during the rule of the Ottots in Italy under Theodoric the Great .
Agapit was a native of Liguria , entered the service of Theodirich the Great about 502/503. It became vir inlustris and the city prefect of Rome (508-509?). He received the rank of patricius ( patricius ) in the year 509/511. In 510, Theodoric elected him head of the embassy to the emperor in Constantinople . In 517, Agapit became consul in the West together with Sabinian in Byzantium .
In 525 , together with the consul of that year, Flavius Theodore , Flavius Inportun Junior and Pope John I , he went to Ravenna to help Theodoric and was elected ambassador to Constantinople to Justin I. After returning to Ravenna, he was captured with others and imprisoned in May 526 . After that, there is no information about him.
Literature
- Johannes Sundwall: Abhandlungen zur Geschichte des ausgehenden Römertums. Helsinki 1919, ND New York 1975, S. 84f.
- John Robert Martindale: Fl. Agapitus 3. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Band 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , S. 30-32.