06-01-2016, 01:34 AM
However it is very difficult to date many of the chapters of Severinus of Noricum. The revolt of Comagenis in Chapters I and II can be safely dated to 454 or 455, where these federates revolted on Aetius' or Valentinian III's death (as, with the way federate treaties worked at the time, they were often void when the nation's leader died). However Chapter XX is dated to 476.
The passage on Odoacer occurs after the events of the rise of King Flaccitheus and the founding of the independent kingdom of the Rugii in 467, meaning it could not have occurred prior to then. Procopius states he was part of the Protectores Domestici (which at this time consisted of officials earmarked for military service). John of Antioch in fragment 209 states he had sided with Ricimer in 472 against Anthemius, which is when most scholars first place him in Italy.
As for the events regarding the Britons, see Jordanes 45.237-239
Sidonius Apollinaris in his letters (Letter 7, Section 5) states that Arvandus had sent a letter to Euric saying the Britons beyond the Loire should be attacked in 468 AD. The events described in Jordanes (and referenced in Gregory) are typically thought to have taken place inbetween 470 and 472 AD.
The passage on Odoacer occurs after the events of the rise of King Flaccitheus and the founding of the independent kingdom of the Rugii in 467, meaning it could not have occurred prior to then. Procopius states he was part of the Protectores Domestici (which at this time consisted of officials earmarked for military service). John of Antioch in fragment 209 states he had sided with Ricimer in 472 against Anthemius, which is when most scholars first place him in Italy.
As for the events regarding the Britons, see Jordanes 45.237-239
Quote:(237) Now Eurich, king of the Visigoths, perceived the frequent change of Roman Emperors and strove to hold Gaul by his own right. The Emperor Anthemius heard of it and asked the Brittones for aid. Their King Riotimus came with twelve thousand men into the state of the Bituriges by the way of Ocean, and was received as he disembarked from his ships. (238) Eurich, king of the Visigoths, came against them with an innumerable army, and after a long fight he routed Riotimus, king of the Brittones, before the Romans could join him. So when he had lost a great part of his army, he fled with all the men he could gather together, and came to the Burgundians, a neighboring tribe then allied to the Romans. But Eurich, king of the Visigoths, seized the Gallic city of Arverna; for the Emperor Anthemius was now dead.
Sidonius Apollinaris in his letters (Letter 7, Section 5) states that Arvandus had sent a letter to Euric saying the Britons beyond the Loire should be attacked in 468 AD. The events described in Jordanes (and referenced in Gregory) are typically thought to have taken place inbetween 470 and 472 AD.
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