Anicius Petronius Probus

Flavius Anicius Petronius Probus (floruit 395-406) was a politician of the Western Roman Empire.

Biography

A member of the gens Anicia, he was the son of Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus^[1] (consul in 371) and of Anicia Faltonia Proba;^[2] his elder brothers were Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius and Anicius Probinus (consuls in 395), and his sister was Anicia Proba.^[1]^[2]^[3]

In 395, he is attested as quaestor elected by the Emperor,^[1]^[2] and in 406 was consul contemporaneously with the Eastern Emperor Arcadius;^[3]^[4]^[5] one of his consular diptychs is preserved at the Museo del tesoro della cattedrale di Aosta, and depicts Emperor Honorius.

Probus was a Christian.^[4]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c CIL VI, 1752.
^ ^a ^b ^c CIL VI, 1754.
^ ^a ^b Jerome, Letters, 130.7
^ ^a ^b CIL V, 6836
^ Zosimus, VI.3.1.

Bibliography

CIL VI, 1754, an inscription set up by Probus and his brother Probinus in honour of their mother.
Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Martindale, John Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). vol. 1, Cambridge 1971, p. 639.

Political offices
Preceded by Stilicho, Anthemius	Consul of the Roman Empire 406 with Arcadius	Succeeded by Honorius, Theodosius II

[CIL_6_1752-1] CIL VI, 1752.

[CIL_6_1754-2] CIL VI, 1754.

[jerome_letters_170-3] Jerome, Letters, 130.7

[CIL_5_6836-4] CIL V, 6836

[5] Zosimus, VI.3.1.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]