Flavius Inportun Junior ( Latin Inportunus ) (years of activity - 509-523) - Roman politician during the reign of Theodoric the Great . He served as consul without co-consul in 509.
Foreigner was the son of Flavius Cecina Decius Maxim Basil Junior (consul of 480) and sibling of Flavius Favst Albin Junior (consul of 493 years), Flavius Avien Junior (consul of 501 years), and Flavius Theodore (consul of 505). [one]
During the preparation of the festivities in honor of the appointment to the post of consul, Inportun and his brother Theodore were accused by the Green Party of assaulting and killing one of their members. Theodorich’s letter that reached us contains the king’s order to both of them to give answers to the accusations made before the court of the venerable (inlustrius) Kelian and Agapit. [2]
In 523, he was in the retinue of Pope John I , who was ordered by King Theodoric to go to Constantinople and achieve a change in the decree of Emperor Justin I of 523, directed against the Arians . Theodorich threatened that if John did not achieve his goal, persecution of Orthodox Catholics would follow in the West. Other senators following with Pope John included his brother Theodore, Flavius Agapit, and Patrician Agapit. [3]
Notes
- ↑ Cassiodorus , Variae III.6.2; translated by SJB Barnish, Cassiodorus: Variae (Liverpool: University press, 1992), p. 50
- ↑ Cassiodorus, Variae I.27; translated by Barnish, Cassiodorus , p. 19f
- ↑ Raymond Davis (translator), The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis) , first edition (Liverpool: University Press, 1989), p. 49