Junius Quartus Palladius
Junius Quartus Palladius (fl. 408–421) was a politician of the
Life
Palladius came from a noble family,[1] that gave several high officers to the imperial administration. It is known that he had a brother, who set up a statue in his honour near his house on the Aventine Hill; the inscription on the base gives Palladius' career in detail.[1] Early in his career he was quaestor and pretor candidatus, notarius et tribunus at the Imperial court, and comes sacrarum largitionum (probably in 408/409, if he is to be identified with the Palladius that was in Rome at the time of Alaric's first siege).
In 416 Palladius was appointed
) issued a praetorian law against the Pelagians.He is probably to be identified with the tribunus et notarius who was in Rome in 408, during the first siege of Alaric.[2] In this occasion Palladius was to gather from the Roman aristocrats the jewels needed to pay for Alaric's tribute, but he could not obtain enough and was obliged to proceed to despoil the residual decorations of the Pagan temples of the city.[3]
On four occasions he was appointed envoy by the Roman Senate.
Notes
- ^ ISBN 0-520-03898-3, p. 181-182).
- ^ F. Paschoud, Historie nouvelle, III, Paris, pp. 282-283; Santo Mazzarino, Il Basso Impero, Edizioni Dedalo 1980, p. 386.
- ^ Zosimus, Historia nea, V.41.
Sources
- Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, "Fl. Iunius Quartus Palladius 19", p. 822–824.