Petrus_(consul_516)

Petrus (consul 516)

Petrus (consul 516)

Roman politician

Flavius Petrus (fl. 506–516) was a Roman politician during the reign of Theodoric the Great. He held the consulship without colleague in 516.[1]

According to Cassiodorus, Petrus was from a distinguished noble family (parentum luce conspicuus).[2] Ennodius wrote him a congratulatory letter in 506 for receiving an office,[3] likely of lower rank than vir inlustris.[1] In 510 or 511, Theodoric asked the praefectus urbi Argolicus to appoint Petrus to the Senate.[1]

In 516, Petrus obtained the Roman consulate in the West sine collega (without colleague),[1] after which nothing is known about him.

References

  1. [1]
    A. H. M. Jones; J. R. Martindale; J. Morris (1980). "Fl. Petrus 28". The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume 2, AD 395-527. Cambridge University Press. p. 871. ISBN 978-0-521-20159-9.
  2. [2]
    Cassiodorus. "Variae IV 25, ARGOLICO V. I. P. U. THEODERICUS REX" – via The Latin Library.
  3. [3]
    Ennodius. "Epistulae V 8, ENNODIVS PETRO" – via the Internet Archive.
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