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2 unusual facts about Eugenius


Eugenius

Eugenius was nominally a Christian, and therefore was reluctant to accept a program of imperial support to Polytheism.

Theodosius then moved from Constantinople with his army, and met Eugenius and Arbogast in the Battle of the Frigidus (Vipava Valley, Slovenia) on 6 September 394.


1650 in poetry

Thomas Vaughan writing under the pen name "Eugenius Philalethes", Anthroposophia Theomagica; or, A Discourse of the Nature of Man and his State After Death

Eugenius of Carthage

Gunthamund, who succeeded Huneric as Vandal king, allowed Eugenius to return to Carthage and permitted him to reopen the churches.

After eight years of peace Thrasamund succeeded to the throne, arrested Eugenius and condemned him to death, but commuted the sentence into exile at Vienne, near Albi (Languedoc), where the Arian Alaric was king.

Louis of Teck

At the Council of Basel, he proposed that Eugenius was sentenced to death.

Nicomachus Flavianus

Virius Nicomachus Flavianus (334-394), praetorian prefect, supporter of Eugenius

Outerbridge

Outerbridge Crossing, a bridge connecting Staten Island, New York to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, named for Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge

Virius Nicomachus Flavianus

Eugenius was a Christian, but choose several pagans within the aristocracy as his allies.

A pagan and close friend of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, he was Praetorian prefect of Italy in 390–392 and, under usurper Eugenius (392–394), again praetorian prefect (393–394) and consul (394, recognized only within Eugenius' territory).


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