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Volusius Venustus (''floruit'' 4th century) was a politician of the Roman Empire. == Biography == Volusius Venustus set up a monument in the forum of Canosa in honour〔CIL, XI, 329.〕 of Constantine I and his two sons (the fact that only two sons are honoured means that the monument was set up between 317 and 333, less the period between 324 and 326). This monument is a clue that he was from this city in southern Italia; it also marks his office, the one of ''corrector Apuliae et Calabriae'' (governor of the region corresponding to the present-day Apulia). A Venustus is attested in the year 362, as a member of a senatorial delegation to Antioch to the emperor Julian,〔Ammianus Marcellinus, xxiii.1.4.〕 who on this occasion nominated this Venustus as ''vicarius Hispaniarum'' (362-363). In 370, together with Vettius Agorius Praetextatus and Minervius, he formed a senatorial legation to the Emperor Valentinian I, asking him not to torture those senators involved in trials.〔Ammianus Marcellinus, xxviii.1.24-25.〕 According to a long-standing reconstruction by Otto Seek, the two previous officers were the same person, who is to be identified with the Venustus father of Virius Nicomachus Flavianus and grandfather of Nicomachus Flavianus the younger and maybe another nephew called Venustus. This Venustus was, therefore, related to the orator Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (also father-in-law of Flavianus the younger), since he was brother-in-law of Lucius Avianus Symmachus, father of Aurelius. However, recently this interpretation has been put under discussion. The most-widely accepted reconstruction is that the Venustus ''corrector Apuliae et Calabriae'' and the ''vicarius Hispaniarum'' are two different officers; the first, Volusius Venustus, would be a member of the ''Ragonii'', belonging to the generation between Ragonius Venustus consul in 260 and the Lucius Ragonius Venustus who performed a ''taurobolium'' in 390; the second, Venustus, might have been Nicomachus' father. 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「Volusius Venustus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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