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Basil of Caesarea
see Glossary of Ancient Sources
Bathouses
fourth-century Gothic priest and martyr whose relics were deposited at Cyzicus by the Gothic noblewoman Dulcilla.
Bauto
general of Gratian who in 381 prevented the Gothic revolt in Thrace from spreading into the western provinces.
Bonitus
Frankish general of high rank in the army of Constantine during the civil wars with Licinius.
Botheric
Roman general stationed in Thessalonica in 390 in response to the Balkan revolt. His murder in the city led to a massacre of civilians in the city’s circus on the orders of Theodosius Ⅰ.
Caesarius
praetorian prefect in the East from 400–403 after the collapse of the regime of Aurelian (2). His reluctance to negotiate with barbarians convinced Alaric to leave the East and move to Italy.
Candac
barbarian chieftain and employer of Paria, who was the grandfather of the sixth-century author Jordanes.
Cannobaudes
Gothic king, possibly fictional, supposedly defeated by Aurelian.
Caracalla
emperor 211–217. He issued the so-called Antonine Constitution extending Roman citizenship to almost every inhabitant of the empire in 212. His defeat of the Parthian monarchy allowed the Sassanian dynasty under Ardashir to come to power.
Carinus
emperor 283–285, older son and co-emperor of Carus. Defeated by Diocletian at the battle of the Margus in 285, he was killed by his own soldiers.
Carus
emperor 282–283, successor of Probus. He was killed on campaign against Persia, paving the way for the accession of Diocletian.
Cassio
tribune of an elite schola palatina unit, the Scutarii, he and Bacurius began the fighting at the battle of Adrianople in 378.
Cassiodorus
see Glossary of Ancient Sources
Castalius
dedicatee of Jordanes’ Getica .
Claudius
emperor 268–270, winner of a dramatic victory over a Gothic army and thus generally known as Claudius ‘Gothicus’. The emperor Constantine Ⅰ began to claim (fictitious) descent from Claudius after 310.
Cniva
Gothic king in 250–251 who defeated the emperor Decius at Abrittus.
Colias
Gothic commander of a regular unit in the Roman army along with Sueridus, he joined the revolt of Fritigern in 377 after a dispute with the curia of Adrianople.
Constans
youngest son of Constantine and emperor 337–350. He defeated and killed his elder brother Constantinus in battle in 340 and thereafter ruled the western half of the empire while Constantius Ⅱ ruled the East. He was killed in the usurpation of Magnentius in 350.
Constans (2)
general of the usurper Priscus Attalus. Sent by Attalus to hold Africa in 409, he was defeated and killed by the comes Africae Heraclian who was loyal to Honorius.
Constantine Ⅰ
(‘the Great’) emperor 306–337, acclaimed emperor at York in 306, by 312 the sole ruler of the West and openly Christian. Defeating his rival Licinius in 316 and 324, he became ruler of the whole empire, waging an important Gothic war in 332.
Constantinus (Constantine Ⅱ)
son of Constantine and augustus 337–340. As caesar, he commanded his father’s Gothic campaign of 332. He was killed in a war against his youngest brother Constans in 340.
Constantine Ⅲ
usurper in the West 407–411, raised to the purple in Britain in 407 as a response to the Rhine invasions of 405/406 andin control of Britain, Gaul and Spain from 408 until his defeat and death in 411.
Constantius Ⅰ
emperor 293–306 (caesar 293–305; augustus 305–306) and father of Constantine Ⅰ, he was a general of Diocletian and Maximian made caesar along with Galerius in 293, when the tetrarchy was created.
Constantius Ⅱ
emperor 337–361. Middle son of Constantine, who outlived his brothers Constantinus and Constans, fighting many wars on the middle Danube, while allowing the Tervingi to grow quite powerful.
Constantius Ⅲ
emperor 419–421, father of Valentinian Ⅲ. The most successful general of Honorius after 408, he orchestrated the Gothic settlement in Aquitania in 418. He became co-emperor with Honorius after