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Marcellinus places the elevation of Valentinian at Ravenna

The Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes records under the consulship of Theodosius (11th) and Valentinian Caesar (AD 425) that the younger Valentinian was made emperor at Ravenna.

Limits: A Latin chronicle written at Constantinople c. 518-534, used through Mommsen's 1894 edition (MGH AA 11) as Internet Archive OCR text (page images not checked); the English is an AI working translation. Marcellinus names Ravenna. In the same volume Hydatius §85 says that Valentinian, already Caesar, was named Augustus at Rome. The Greek column alongside Marcellinus dates the elevation to 23 October without naming a place. The OCR sigla at line 6258 read TSB with a damaged omission note for 424–427; the witness responsible is uncertain. Jordanes and Bede draw on Marcellinus.

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Source: Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon (Latin), ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH Auctores antiquissimi 11 (Chronica minora II), 1894Read the source