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Aetius killed by Valentinian

The Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes records under the consulship of Aetius and Studius (AD 454) that Aetius, whom it calls the great salvation of the Western state and a terror to King Attila, was slaughtered in the palace by the emperor Valentinian together with his friend Boethius.

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. The passage does not name the city. Mommsen's apparatus records the variants 'regi quondam' and 'Aetius patricius' in manuscript S and 'Boetio' in the manuscripts; his note at the foot of the page indicates that two of his manuscripts omit the year 454. The retained passage does not explicitly establish the site of the relevant act. No occurrence region is assigned.

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