Georg Fabricius was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist who wrote in Latin during the German Renaissance.
Urbi et Orbi denotes a papal address and apostolic blessing given by the pope on certain solemn occasions.
A rationalis was a high-ranking fiscal officer in the Roman Empire. Until replaced by the comes sacrarum largitionum by Emperor Constantine in the early 4th century, the rationalis summarum – comparable to a modern-day finance minister – was one of two state officials who had authority over the imperial treasury, the other one being the rationalis rei privatae. Examples for tasks that were performed by a rationalis are "the collection of all normal taxes and duties, the control of currency and the administration of mines and mints".
Gaius Ceionius Rufius Volusianus was a Roman senator who had a lengthy political career and who was appointed consul at least twice, the known dates being AD 311 and 314.
Matteo D'Afflitto, also referred to as Matthaeus de Afflictis, was a Neapolitan jurist descending from the princely family d’Afflitto.
The title vir illustris is used as a formal indication of standing in late antiquity to describe the highest ranks within the senates of Rome and Constantinople. All senators had the title vir clarissimus ; but from the mid fourth century onwards, vir illustris and vir spectabilis were used to distinguish holders of high office.
The sacrum consistorium or sacrum auditorium was the highest political council of the Roman Empire from the time of Constantine the Great on. It replaced the consilium principis that had existed during the Principate.
Lucius Caesonius Ovinius Manlius Rufinianus Bassus was a Roman military officer and senator who was appointed suffect consul twice, in around AD 260 and 284.
In the Roman Empire during late antiquity, the comes rerum privatarum, literally "count of the private fortune", was the official charged with administering the estates of the emperor. He did not administer public lands, although the distinction between the emperor's private property and state property was not always clear or consistently applied. The comes collected rents, handled sales of movable and immovable property, protected the estates from usurpation and accepted lands that came to the emperor by way of grant, bequest, confiscation or forfeiture. Vacant lands and heirless property both escheated to the emperor.
Virius Lupus was a consul of the Roman Empire in 278.
Florentinus was a Roman politician who served as Urban prefect of Rome from 395 to 397 AD.
Flavius Hypatius was a Roman Senator, who was the brother-in-law of the Roman emperor Constantius II.
Titus Flavius Postumius Varus was a Roman senator who was appointed suffect consul around AD 250.
Filippo Picinelli was an Augustinian canon.
Lucius Caninius Gallus was a Roman senator who was appointed suffect consul in 2 BC.
Johann Heinrich Ernesti was a Saxon philosopher, Lutheran theologian, Latin classicist and poet. He was rector of the Thomasschule, and Professor of Poetry at Leipzig University. He gained fame through his writings on Cicero.
The Apion family was a wealthy clan of landholders in Byzantine Egypt, especially in the Middle Egyptian nomes of Oxyrhynchus, Arsinoe and Heracleopolis Magna. Beginning as a local aristocracy, it rose to prominence in the 5th, 6th and early 7th centuries when several successive heads of the family occupied high imperial offices, including the consulship. After the Sasanian conquest of Egypt, the family disappeared.
Joannes Burmeister (1576–1638) was a Neo-Latin poet laureate of the German Baroque period, famed for his Christian adaptations of the classical Roman poets Martial and Plautus.
Marcus Hirrius Fronto Neratius Pansa was a Roman senator who held several posts in the emperor's service. He was appointed suffect consul in either AD 73 or 74. Pansa is known primarily through epigraphic inscriptions.
The gens Viria was a Roman family of the second and third centuries, possibly of northern Italian origin. The first member to ascend the cursus honorum was Virius Lupus, who attained the consulship in the late second century. It is possible that the family was elevated to patrician status around that time. The family's influence reached its apex during the third century.
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