See also:JOVIAN (FLAVIUS JoVIANUs) (c. 332-364)
, See also:Roman See also:emperor from See also:June 363 to See also:February 364, was See also:born at Singidunum in See also:Moesia about 332
.
As See also:captain of the imperial bodyguard he accompanied See also:Julian in his See also:Persian expedition; and on the See also:day after that emperor's See also:death, when the aged See also:Sallust, See also:prefect of the See also:East, declined the See also:purple, the choice of the See also:army See also:fell upon See also:Jovian
.
His See also:election caused considerable surprise, and it is suggested by See also:Ammianus See also:Marcellinus that he was wrongly identified with another Jovian, See also:chief See also:notary, whose name also had been put forward, or that, during the acclamations, the soldiers mistook the name Jovianus for Julianus, and imagined that the latter had recovered from his illness
.
Jovian at once continued the See also:retreat begun by Julian, and, continually harassed by the Persians, succeeded in reaching the See also:banks of the See also:Tigris, where a humiliating treaty was concluded with the Persian See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, See also:Shapur II
.
(q.v.)
.
Five provinces which had been conquered by See also:Galerius in 298 were surrendered, together with See also:Nisibis and other cities
.
The See also:Romans also gave up all their interests in the See also:kingdom of See also:Armenia, and abandoned its See also:Christian See also:prince See also:Arsaces to the Persians
.
' During his return to See also:Constantinople Jovian was found dead in his See also:bed at Dadastana, halfway between See also:Ancyra and See also:Nicaea
.
A surfeit of mushrooms or the fumes of a See also:charcoal See also:fire have been assigned . as the cause of death
.
Under Jovian, See also:Christianity was established as the See also:state See also:religion, and the See also:Labarum of See also:Constantine again became the See also:standard of the army
.
The statement that he issued an See also:edict of See also:toleration, to the effect that, while the exercise of magical See also:rites would be severely punished, his subjects should enjoy full See also:liberty of See also:conscience, rests on insufficient See also:evidence
.
Jovian entertained a See also:great regard for See also:Athanasius, whom he reinstated on the archiepiscopal See also:throne, desiring him to draw up a statement of the See also:Catholic faith
.
In See also:Syriac literature Jovian became the See also:hero of a Christian See also:romance (G
.
See also:Hoffmann, Julianus der Abtrunnige, r88o)
.
See Ammianus Marcellinus, See also:xxv
.
5-1o; J
.
P. de la Bl6terie, His-See also:Loire de Jovien 0740); See also:Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chs. See also:xxiv., xxv
.
; J
.
See also:Wordsworth in See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith and See also:Wace's See also:Dictionary of Christian See also:Biography; H
.
See also:Schiller, Geschichte der romischen Kaiserzeit, vol. ii
.
(188) ; A. de See also:Broglie, L' Eglise et l'See also:empire romain an iv° siecle (4th ed
.
1882
.
For the relations of See also:Rome and See also:Persia see PERSIA: See also:Ancient See also:History
.
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