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Calocaerus (333/334 A.D.)

Michael DiMaio, Jr.

Salve Regina University


In 333/334 A.D., on the island of Cyprus, the Magister pecoris camelorum Calocaerus revolted and took up the purple. He was defeated by Dalmatius the Censor. The usurper and his accomplices were tried and executed at Tarsus in Cilicia.

Bibliography

Barnes, T.D., New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine, (Cambridge, 1982), 15ff.

Ensslin, Wm, "Dalmatius Censor, der Halbbruder Konstantins I," RhM., 78(1929): 199ff.

Jones, A.H.M., J.R. Martindale, and J. Morris. "Calocaerus." The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Cambridge, 1971, 1.177.

Kienast, Dietmar, Römische Kaisertabelle: Grundzüge einer römischen Kaiserchronologie, (Darmstadt, 1990), 304.

König, I., Origo Constantini: Anonymus Valesianus, (Trier, 1987), 179ff.

Kroll, W.. "Kalokairos." RE 10.2: col. 1757.


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Comments to: Michael DiMaio, Jr.

Updated: 19 October 1996

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