Eugenius (Antioch)

Eugenius († 303 or 304) was briefly a Roman usurper in Syria.

The tribune Eugenius was proclaimed in the year 303 ( or 304 ) in Seleucia Pieria of a abkommandierten to harbor works cohort to the Emperor attacked and then Antioch, but fell in the battle. Although the inhabitants are said to have opposed the troops of the usurper, the city of Diocletian was punished by being put to death their curials, including a grandfather and a great-uncle of the rhetorician Libanius.

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  • Libanius, Oratio 19,45
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