- Not to be confused with the consul of 428 and the poet .
Flavius Arkady Placid Magn Felix ( lat. Flavius Arcadius Placidus Magnus Felix ), sometimes identified with Flavius Felix ( lat. Flavius Felix ) [1] (mentioned in 511 ) - a Roman politician who served as consul during the reign of Theodoric the Great .
Belonged to an ancient aristocratic family from Gaul, was the great-grandson of the consul of 460, Flavius Magna ; lost his father in his youth, inheriting his fortune.
Theodorich granted him at least one notable post, since in 511 he was already Vir illustris . In the same year he was appointed consul in the West, while Flavius Secundin was appointed consul of the East; the official announcement of this was preserved by Cassiodorus ( Variae 2.1). In another letter of Theodorich that reached us, which was supposedly written in the same year, the king asked Flavius Arkady not to pay for some debts presented by the drivers of the hippodrome in Milan ( Variae , 3.39).
Notes
- ↑ Christian Settipani, Continuite Gentilice et Continuite Familiale Dans Les Familles Senatoriales Romaines A L'epoque Imperiale, Mythe et Realite , Addenda I-III (juillet 2000-octobre 2002) (np: Prosopographica et Genealogica, 2002).
Literature
- Secundinus 5, Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire , Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , p. 986.