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Faltonius Probus Alypius

Inscription on the base of a statue dedicated to Faltonius Probus Alypius[1]

Faltonius Probus Alypius (floruit 370–397) was a politician of the Roman Empire.

Life

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Alypius was the son of Clodius Celsinus Adelphius, Praefectus urbi of Rome in 351, and of the Christian poet Faltonia Betitia Proba. His brother, Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius, was Roman consul in 379.

In 370/371 he was exiled, under the investigations of Maximinus. In 378 he held a high office in Mauretania, possibly vicarius of Africa. On June 12, 391, he is attested ad Praefectus urbi of Rome. In 393 he was sent to the court of Emperor Eugenius, on occasion of the celebrations for the consulship of Virius Nicomachus Flavianus for the following year.

He was the addressee of some letters by Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, showing he was alive in 397, and maybe even from Ambrose.

Notes

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  1. ^ CIL VI, 31975; the base was found in 1892 during excavations at the site of the former church of Santa Maria dei Calderari, but this was probably not its original location (see Carlos Machado, LSA-2666

Sources

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Political offices
Preceded by Praefectus urbi of Rome
391
Succeeded by