MARCELLINUS COMES


Marcellinus Comes was a Latin chronicler of the sixth century. He spent his life at the court of Constantinople, where he was chancellor to Justinian and obtained various high places in the government. Otherwise little or nothing is known of his life. He died apparently soon after 534. The only surviving work of Marcellinus is his chronicle. It covers the period from 379 to 534.


Chronicon, 474 AD
Glycerius Caesar Romae imperium tenens a Nepote Marcellini quondam patricii sororis filio imperio expulsus in Portu urbis Romae ex Caesare episcopus ordinatus est et obiit. While holding power at Rome Glycerius Caesar was expelled from the Empire by Nepos, the son of the sister of the former patrician Marcellinus; he was made a bishop [of Salonae] instead of Caesar at the harbour of the city of Rome and died.

Translation: Brian Croke.