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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 8091910, member: 84905"]Great coin and super article. I enjoyed that very much.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my view, however, Flavius Victor was still very young, i.e. a minor in AD 387.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Gregory of Tours wrote:</u></p><p>"Quod ubi Treverus perlatum est, Nanninus et Quintinus militaris magistri, quibus <b>infantiam filii </b>et defensionem Galliarum Maximus conmiserat, collecto exercitu, apud Agripinam convenerunt."</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Which translates as:</u></p><p>"When this became known in Treveri [Trier], the army masters Nanninus and Quintinus, to whom Maximus had entrusted his <b>underage son</b> and the defence of the Gallic provinces, gathered their army and went to Agrippina [Cologne]."</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't think it is likely that this unnamed underage son is anybody other than Flavius Victor, because Gregory is not interested in other members of Magnus Maximus' family except the Emperor and his son, whom he had named Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if this underage son was somebody else and Flavius Victor was around as effective Emperor of Gaul, we would not expect Magnus Maximus to have entrusted the defence of that province to Nanninus and Quintinus without naming Flavius Victor as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 8091910, member: 84905"]Great coin and super article. I enjoyed that very much. In my view, however, Flavius Victor was still very young, i.e. a minor in AD 387. [U]Gregory of Tours wrote:[/U] "Quod ubi Treverus perlatum est, Nanninus et Quintinus militaris magistri, quibus [B]infantiam filii [/B]et defensionem Galliarum Maximus conmiserat, collecto exercitu, apud Agripinam convenerunt." [U]Which translates as:[/U] "When this became known in Treveri [Trier], the army masters Nanninus and Quintinus, to whom Maximus had entrusted his [B]underage son[/B] and the defence of the Gallic provinces, gathered their army and went to Agrippina [Cologne]." I don't think it is likely that this unnamed underage son is anybody other than Flavius Victor, because Gregory is not interested in other members of Magnus Maximus' family except the Emperor and his son, whom he had named Augustus. Even if this underage son was somebody else and Flavius Victor was around as effective Emperor of Gaul, we would not expect Magnus Maximus to have entrusted the defence of that province to Nanninus and Quintinus without naming Flavius Victor as well.[/QUOTE]
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