Rufius Petronius Placidus, Consul 481.
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Rufius Petronius Anicius Probinus, Consul 489.
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Rufius Petronius Nicomachus Cethegus, Consul 504, correspondent of Cassiodorus.
Probinus and Cethegus are referred to by Ennodius in his letter to Ambrosius and Beatus, otherwise called his Paraenesis (p. 409, ed. Hartel).
[102] Caput Senati. This, not Caput Senatus, is the form which we find in Anon. Valesii. Usener suggests (p. 32) that Symmachus probably became Caput Senati on the death of Festus, who had held that position from 501 to 506.
[103] See Usener, p. 29. The Consules Ordinarii for that year were Arcadius and Honorius.
[104] Jordanes, Getica xv.: 'Nam, ut dicit Symmachus in quinto suae historiae libro, Maximinus ... ab exercitus effectus est imperator.' 'Occisus Aquileia a Puppione regnum reliquit Philippo; quod nos huic nostro opusculo de Symmachi hystoria [sic] mutuavimus.'
[105] Chiefly derived from the Paraenesis of Ennodius (Opusc. vi.).
[106] In the Paraenesis.
[107] Usener's suggestion (pp. 38, 39) that he obtained this honour in consequence of having filled the place of Comes Sacrarum Largitionum seems to me only to land us in the further difficulty caused by the entire omission of all allusion to this fact both in the Paraenesis and in the Anecdoton Holderi.
[108] See Var. [i. 10] and [45]; [ii. 40].
[109] De l'Origine des Traditions sur le Christianisme de Boèce (Paris, 1861.)