Sebastianus, brother of Jovinus, was associated in souvereignty with that usurper of the purple, during the reign of Honorius, A.D. 412, and proclaimed Augustus in Gaul, of which country Jovinus had been the most powerful nobleman. But Ataulphus, King of the Goths, who had just abandoned Italy to enter Gaul as the ally and colleague of Jovinus against the rightful emperor, offended at the elevation of Sebastian put him to death at Narbonne as the condition of his own peace with Honorius, A.D. 413. Thus perished, after a few months of false glory, a gay-hearted, thoughtless, unwarlike young man, premature victim to the ambition of a brother, who himself was also captured and beheaded by the unscrupulous and vindictive Ataulphus, a short time afterwards. -- The coin of Sebastian, in silver, published by Mionnet and Akerman, it is to be feared is not authenticated as genuine. View whole page from the |Dictionary Of Roman Coins| |