Theodoric occupies Italy
Marcellinus reports Theodoric’s occupation of Italy under the consulship of Eusebius and Probinus (489).
What this does and does not establish
Cassiodorus places the entry into Italy under 489 as well. Marcellinus narrates Odoacer’s confinement at Ravenna in the same entry, while Cassiodorus places that episode under 490. This claim dates only the occupation of Italy.
- 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
- Indiction/consul heading (OCR line 7923): '489 XII. EVSEBII ET PEOBINI.'
- How we use it
- Placed in the consular year under which Marcellinus enters it (as numbered by the editor). The listing uses year precision. Any finer dating belongs to the quoted passage; the chronicle can misplace events.
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
Consular year to AD 489 per the heading index marcellinus-headings.json (one indiction/consul heading per year in order, indiction expected 12, read 12), matching the AD years Mommsen prints in the margin.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon (Latin), ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH Auctores antiquissimi 11 (Chronica minora II), 1894
Marcellinus Comes (6th-century, Constantinople); critical edition by Theodor Mommsen (1894)
Quoted text (Latin)
Idem Theodoricus rex Gothorum optatam occupavit Itaham. Odoacer itidem rex
Gothorum metu Theodorici perterritus Ravennam est clausus.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
The same Theodoric, king of the Goths, occupied the Italy he had longed for. Odoacer, likewise king of the Goths, terrified by fear of Theodoric, was shut up in Ravenna.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon, ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH AA 11 (1894), Internet Archive OCR text. English renderings are AI working translations from the Latin.
Exact source version
e805805fe7b68265bd53e46c3152420178fa7275b1ed420804dfd243bfc628c9Source 2 · Context for reading it
Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon (Latin), ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH Auctores antiquissimi 11 (Chronica minora II), 1894
Marcellinus Comes (6th-century, Constantinople); critical edition by Theodor Mommsen (1894)
Quoted text (Latin)
porro ab eodem Theo-
30 dorico periuriis inlectus interfectusque est.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Then, lured by perjuries by the same Theodoric, he was killed.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon, ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH AA 11 (1894), Internet Archive OCR text. English renderings are AI working translations from the Latin.
Exact source version
e805805fe7b68265bd53e46c3152420178fa7275b1ed420804dfd243bfc628c9Checks and changes
Source checked 2026-11-05. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
This is a corrected version of this record. During research, before this release, an earlier version was withdrawn after independent review and replaced by this one.
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