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Flavius Iunius Quartus Palladius (''floruit'' 408-421) was a politician of the Western Roman Empire, who held the Praetorian prefecture of Italy, Illyricum and Africa for six years and was also consul in 416. == Life == Palladius come from a noble family,〔. This statue-base was found in 1926 on the Aventine Hill in Rome, near Sant'Anselmo monastery east of via Santa Sabina, close to the remains of a Roman house. The base is now at the Musei Capitolini (inv. 7056), in the Giardino Caffarelli of the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Arthur Ernest Gordon, ''Illustrated introduction to Latin epigraphy'', University of California Press, 1983, ISBN 0-520-03898-3, p. 181-182).〕 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.〔 Early in his career he was ''quaestor'' and ''pretor candidatus'', ''notarius et tribunus'' at the Imperial court, ''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 consul ''posterior'', with the Eastern Emperor Theodosius II as colleague. That same year he started (January 7, 416) his office as Praetorian prefect of Italy, Illyricum and Africa, office he held for six years (at least until July 28, 421, but his first possible successor is attested only in 422). During this period (April 30, 418) he received a law by Honorius, according to which he was to expel the Pelagians from Rome; later he and the other prefects (Monaxius and Agricola) issued a praetorian law that 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.〔F. Paschoud, ''Historie nouvelle'', III, Paris, pp. 282-283; Santo Mazzarino, ''Il Basso Impero'', Edizioni Dedalo 1980, p. 386.〕 In this occasion Palladius was to gather among the Roman aristocrats the jewels needed to pay for Alaric's tribute, but he could not obtain enough and was obliged to proceed to the spoliation of the residual decorations of the Pagan temples of the city.〔Zosimus, ''Historia nea'', V.41.〕 On four occasions he was appointed envoy by the Roman Senate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Iunius Quartus Palladius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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