EUTROPIUS, Consul of East Roman Emperor Arcadius

d. 399, consul of East Roman Emperor Arcadius. A eunuch of the palace, he brought about the marriage (395) of Arcadius and Eudoxia and succeeded Rufinus as chief minister. He repelled (398) an invasion of Huns and was the first eunuch to be appointed (399) consul. He was hated for his cruelty and avarice; his fall, however, was caused by the enmity of Gaïnas, the leader of the Gothic mercenaries, and Eudoxia. Although at first his life was spared through the influence of St. John Chrysostom, he was later executed.

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Law in the Crisis of Empire, 379-455 Ad: The Theodosian Dynasty and Its Quaestors with a Palingenesia of Laws of the Dynasty
Book by Tony Honoré; Oxford University, 1998
Subjects: Codex Theodosianus, Roman Law, Theodosius--I--Emperor Of Rome--347-395
...eastern empire. 4 Arcadius was not a forceful...summer of 399 Eutropius in effect governed the east on his behalf...himself made consul for 399 a serious...Theodosius I and Arcadius of someone constitutionally...quaestor was Eutropius man. That is...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Vol. 7
Book by Edward Gibbon, J. B. Bury; Methuen, 1900
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
...death, 242 . Eutropius, father...354 . Eutropius, the eunuch...power over Arcadius, ib. ; consul, 361 and...369 sq. Eutropius, the historian...controversy in the East, iv...Euxine, Roman naval station...note ; on Emperor Maurice...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Book by J. J. Herzog, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson; Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1908
...literature. ARCADIUS, ar-ke...Eastern Roman emperor 383-408...was made consul. When in...in care of Arcadius, with the...at Milan, Arcadius became emperor of the East. By nature...the eunuch Eutropius, who covered...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day - Vol. 1
Book by Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson; Funk and Wagnalls, 1908
Subjects: Theology--Encyclopedias
...literature. ARCADIUS, ar-ke...Eastern Roman emperor 383-408...was made consul. When in...in care of Arcadius, with the...at Milan, Arcadius became emperor of the East. By nature...the eunuch Eutropius, who covered...
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Claudian's in Eutropium, Or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch
Book by Jacqueline Long; University of North Carolina Press, 1996
Subjects: Eunuchs--Rome, Invective, Rome--History--Honorius, 395-423--Historiography
...holding the Roman office of magister...allegiance to Arcadius in Constantinople...Meanwhile Eutropius had the Constantinopolitan...likely that the East would have...Later in 398 Eutropius led his campaign...times when the emperor who named the consul was himself...last time a consul had been rejected by emperors who recognized...


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Eutropius , Consul of East Roman Emperor Arcadius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EUTROPIUS , consul of East Roman Emperor Arcadius d. 399, consul of East Roman Emperor Arcadius . A eunuch of the palace, he brought about the marriage (395) of Arcadius and Eudoxia and succeeded Rufinus as chief minister. He repelled (398...


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