• Vettius Agorius Praetextatus (c. 315 – 384) was a wealthy pagan aristocrat in the 4th-century Roman Empire, and a high priest in the cults of numerous...
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  • Caecina Mavortius Basilius Decius, consul in 486, and related to Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, an influential aristocrat of the late 4th century. In 527, Mavortius...
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  • Prætextatus or Praetextatus may refer to: Prætextatus (Bishop of Rouen), also known as Saint Prix Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, 4th-century Roman aristocrat...
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    century Datianus, 286 – 293 Iulius Saturninus, c.337 – c. 340 Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, 361– 362 Augusta Emerita Metellinum Norba Caesarina Pax Julia...
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    Eleusinian cult - the other being the Cerycids. Eunapius and Vettius Agorius Praetextatus are notable examples. In the Rider–Waite tarot deck and similar...
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    loosely associated with obscure figures.: xxvi–xxxvi  Praetextatus: Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, a wealthy pagan aristocrat. Flavianus: Virius Nicomachus...
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    pontifex of Sol, in that order. In a list of eight priesthoods, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus puts Pontifex Solis in third place. The other three were in the...
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    Church Himerius, Greek sophist and rhetorician (approximate date) Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, Roman politician (d. 384) September 14 – Maternus of Cologne...
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    328) Murong Hong, founder of the Xianbei state Western Yan Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, praetorian prefect Xi Zuochi, Jin Dynasty historian "List of...
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    maintained by high-ranking pontiffs, including the renowned Vettius Agorius Praetextatus. According to the Historia Augusta, Elagabalus, the teenaged...
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    many deities served by the erudite, deeply religious senator Vettius Agorius Praetextatus (c. AD 315 – 384). A Bacchic community shrine dedicated to Liber...
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    (1998), p. 340. One of the speakers in Macrobius's Saturnalia is Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, a Mithraist. Beck, Roger, "Ritual, Myth, Doctrine, and Initiation...
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  • among a number of families of the Roman elite Alypius of Antioch Vettius Agorius Praetextatus (died 384) Virius Nicomachus Flavianus (334–394) Quintus Aurelius...
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  • Catullinus Philomatius, who was consul in 349. In 344 she married Vettius Agorius Praetextatus. Paulina was initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries and was...
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    Paulina, a pagan priestess during the late fourth century, wife of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus. Saint Fabiola, a Christian ascetic of the late fourth century...
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    319); Strategius Musonianus (353); Flavius Hermogenes (350s); Vettius Agorius Praetextatus (c. 364). According to the classical scholar Robert M. Kallet-Marx...
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    Maxima who in 385 AD erected a statue to the deceased pontiff Vettius Agorius Praetextatus. Zosimos claims that when Theodosius I visited Rome in 394 AD...
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  • consists of an account of the discussions held at the house of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus during the holiday of the Saturnalia. It contains a great variety...
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  • the year 384 Quintus Aurelius Symmachus was Urban Prefect and Vettius Agorius Praetextatus held the post of Praefectus Praetorio Italiae, Illyrici et Africae...
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    Petronius Probus (second time, 383) Nonius Atticus (383-384) Vettius Agorius Praetextatus (384) Neoterius (385) Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus (third...
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    whenever he needed change." Symmachus, and his real-life associates Vettius Agorius Praetextatus and Virius Nicomachus Flavianus, are the main characters of the...
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    Several people in late Roman times, such as the aristocrat Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, joined multiple priesthoods and underwent several initiations...
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  • Nominated consul designate in AD 376, but died the same year. 385 Vettius Agorius Praetextatus Flavius Bauto Nominated consul designate in AD 384, but died...
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    again in late antiquity, being centred round the residence of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus as the Horti Vettiani. From this area come numerous attributable...
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  • of the prefect above. It is consistent with the prefect being Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, who died in 384. This sets the poem in the time of the pagan...
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    Probus (c.364) Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius (378–379) Vettius Agorius Praetextatus (384, also Praetorian Prefect of Italy) Flavius Eutychianus (396–397)...
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  • Aradius Valerius Proculus. Among his correspondents there was Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, who was a member of the pagan and senatorial aristocracy. Jones...
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    Vestalis Maxima, or head of the Vestals, erected in 385 a statue to Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, whose wife later honored her in equal fashion. She is the last...
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  • 328) Murong Hong, founder of the Xianbei state Western Yan Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, praetorian prefect Xi Zuochi, Jin Dynasty historian 385 October...
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  • Church Himerius, Greek sophist and rhetorician (approximate date) Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, Roman politician (d. 384) 316 Constantine II, Roman emperor...
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