Jovien

Jovien , Flavius Claudius Jovianus (v. 332 - February 17th 364), was Roman Emperor of 363 - 364.

With died of Julien, a serious opposition burst in the army, between the officers of Gaules and the officers of the East. Jovien, officer Illyrien, was chosen by the officers of the army of the East.

He concludes with the Perses from Sapor II a “not very honourable” peace, yielding five of the nine Satrapie S, acquired in 297. He stated moreover to give up his old rights of protectorate on the kingdom of Arménie.

Christian, it abrogea anti-Christian women measurements of her predecessor, but without returning for as much to the anti-pagan laws of Constancy II.

He died abruptly on the road of Ancyre to Constantinople, with Drépane, in Bithynie, in the night from February 16th to 17th 364, at approximately 33 years, either asphyxiated by the vapors of a brazier, or of the continuations of a meal sprinkled too well.

Here what writes in his connection the Roman historian Eutrope, its contemporary, in his Abrégé Roman History (translation of Maurice Rat):

IX. - After him, Jovien, which formed then part of its military household, was chosen, by mutual agreement army, to hold the capacity, but more because of the merits of his/her father that his clean; the disturbed situation, the famine which overpowered the army, a first, then one second defeat that Persians inflicted to him, forced it to make with Sapor a peace, necessary undoubtedly, but wretched: it let start its borders and delivered part of the Roman empire, which, before him, had arrived almost never in the eleven hundred and eighteen years past since the foundation of the Roman empire. Undoubtedly Pontius Télésinus had made pass our legions under the yoke to Caudium, and since them still passed there to Spain (to Numance) and in Numidie, but without nothing of our territories being given up. These conditions of peace had not been deeply reprehensible, if the emperor had wanted to break the obstacles of the treaty, when it had of them the full powers, as the Romans in all the wars did it which I have just pointed out because they left immediately in war against Samnites, Numantins and Numides, and peace was not ratified. But fearing a competitor with the empire, if it remained in the East, Jovien took too little care of its glory. It was thus started and, while it gained Illyrie, it perishes of a sudden death at the borders of Galatie. It was a man who was neither inactive nor imprudent besides; many allots its death to an indigestion, because it had habit to make excesses of table; others, with the odor of its room to be slept, where one had just passed a layer of lime which made there the sleep unhealthy; some, with the excessive quantity of coal that it had made there light by a terrible cold. He died after a seven months reign, the fourteenth day of the calends of March, at the age of thirty-three years about; the kindness of the princes who succeeded to him made it place among the gods; it was besides of gracious inclinations and, of its nature, completely libéral.

Contemporaries

Saint Releases, (Pape from 352 to 366)
Saint Felix II, (Antipape from 353 to 365)
Sapor II or Châhpuhr II, king Sassanide of Perse (310-379)
Eutrope, historian

See too

Internal bonds

late Antiquity

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