Septimius Acindynus
For the Byzantine theologian, see Gregory Acindynus.
Septimius Acindynus was a Roman consul with Valerius Proculus in 340 AD. He was governor of Antioch when, a man being ordered by him to pay a pound of gold into the public treasury, was unable to comply, and was put into prison. To release him, with his own sanction, his wife "listened to the persuasions" of a rich man; but the rich man had filled her purse with earth instead of gold. He revealed his fraud to Acindynus. Condemning himself for a rigor which had led to the crime, Acindynus paid the gold himself, and gave the woman the field from which the earth had been brought.[1]
References
- ↑ Rose, Hugh James (1857). A New General Biographical Dictionary, London: B. Fellowes et al.
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| Preceded by Imp. Caesar Fl. Iulius Constantius Augustus II and Imp. Caesar Fl. Iulius Constans Augustus |
Consul of the Roman Empire consul with Lucius Aradius Valerius Proculus 340 |
Succeeded by Antonius Marcellinus and Petronius Probinus |
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