Venantius (consul 507)

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Venantius ( floruit 507) was a Roman politician and consul for the year 507 with Emperor Anastasius I as his colleague. [1]

Venantius was the son of Petrus Marcellinus Felix Liberius. [2] James O'Donnel notes that the "only known relative in the aristocracy" of Liberius – except for Venantius – was Avienus, consul of 501. [3]

References

  1. Jones, A.H.M.; Martindale, J. R.; Morris, John, eds. (1980). "Venantius 2". Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire . Vol. II. p. 1153. ISBN   0-521-20159-4.
  2. Cassiodorus, Variae epistolae, II, 16
  3. O'Donnell, "Liberius the Patrician", Traditio, 37 (1981), p. 34 n. 11
Political offices
Preceded by Roman consul
508
with Anastasius I
Succeeded by