Magnus Maximus killed near Aquileia
The Latin consular notice reports that Magnus Maximus was killed at the third milestone from Aquileia in AD 388.
What this does and does not establish
The derived entry reproduces line 855. Mommsen’s parallel edition of the same chronicle is not independent corroboration; its Latin text reads ab Aquileia against the transcription’s de Aquileia. Neighbouring Greek columns and apparatus sigla are separate from that Latin notice; OCR corruptions are not secure textual variants. Marcellinus separately places the defeat of Maximus and Victor apud Aquileiam under 388, but supplies neither the third milestone nor an explicit killing in that sentence; the following notice mentions Maximus’s death. Its apparatus records aquilegiam in witness S.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- Europe
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- AD 388; die V kal. Aug.
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Read the complete physical row 1 of consularia388.txt and native annual row 855 of fasti-native.htm, with neighbouring rows 853–857. The explicit 388 heading names Theodosius Augustus II and Cynegius; it follows the 387 consuls and precedes Timasius and Promotus in 389. Et ipso anno assigns Maximus’s killing to that 388 entry, despite the preceding retrospective notice of Cynegius’s body being transferred after a year. The 389 entry concerns Theodosius’s arrival at Rome. Checked mommsen-1892.txt, lines 32358–32508, including the complete requested heading and event rows and apparatus. Independently read Marcellinus’s heading and passage in chronicaminorasa11momm.txt, lines 4817–4853, and apparatus at 4872–4876: its 388 heading names the same consuls, followed by the 389 heading. Retained year precision without resolving the notice’s day against other chronologies. Original quotation begins at line 1, character 447.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Consularia Constantinopolitana (Fasti Hydatiani)
Late antique consular chronicle transmitted under the name of Hydatius; individual authorship uncertain
Quoted text (Latin)
Et ipso anno occiditur hostis publicus Maximus tyrannus a Theodosio Aug. in milliario III de Aquileia die V kal. Aug.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
And in that same year the public enemy, the usurper Maximus, is killed by Theodosius Augustus at the third milestone from Aquileia on the fifth day before the Kalends of August.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Consularia Constantinopolitana (Fasti Hydatiani), Latin Library transcription; compare Mommsen, Chronica minora I (1892); project English translation.
Exact source version
1191dd47e84e41c22327be1aaaa789ae4991107a817c331159451f28cbc933ffChecks and changes
Source checked 2026-11-12. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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Revision s301_consular_388_388_0
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