Sebastianus


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     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.

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