Fabius Aconius Catullinus Philomathius

Fabius Aconius (or Aco) Catullinus signo Philomathius (floruit 338-349) was an aristocrat and a politician of the Late Roman Empire.

Biography

Philomathius was the son of Aconius Catullinus, Proconsul of Africa in 317-318, and had a daughter, Aconia Fabia Paulina, who married the influential pagan senator Vettius Agorius Praetextatus.

Philomatius held the offices of Consul suffectus, Praeses of Gallaecia, vicarius of Africa (338-339), Praetorian Prefect of Italy (attested on 24 June 341, out of office before 6 July 342), Praefectus urbi of Rome in 342-344 and finally Consul in 349.

A pagan, he obtained an exemption for the temples in Rome from the ban over the celebration of pagan sacrifices (Codex Theodosianus, xvi.10.3); a dedication to Jupiter Optimus Maximus by Philomathius has been preserved (CIL II, 2635).

Bibliography

CIL VI, 1780
Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-07233-6, pp. 187-188.
Kahlos, Maijastina, "Paulina and the Death of Praetextatus", Arduum res gestas scribere
Salzman, Michele Renee, The Making of a Christian Aristocracy, Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-01603-3, p. 118.

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