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Nov 15, 1996 · Constantina, however, died en route to her brother's side at Caeni Gallicani in Bithynia the same year. Her remains were subsequently laid to rest near the Via Nomentana in Rome. Bibliography. Barnes, T.D., Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empire, (Cambridge, 1993), 101, 105-6. ________.
While on her way to meet with Constantius II, she died at Caeni Gallicani in Bithynia (Asia Minor). The cause of her death was a sudden high fever of unknown cause. [7] . Her body was sent back to Rome and entombed near Via Nomentana in a mausoleum her father, Emperor Constantine I, had started building for her.
She died on the way of a sudden fever attack, at Caeni Gallicani, a post station in Bithynia, probably being in her early thirties. 53 Both Ammianus and Philostorgius record that her death increased Gallus’ fears, indicating that he had drawn a considerable sense of security from his marriage.
When Constantina died of a fever at Caeni Gallicani in Bithynia and Gallus hesitated in Antioch, the tribunus scutariorum Scudilo (PLRE I, pp. 810-811) enticed him with news that Constantius planned to raise him to the rank of Augustus and to engage with him in some cooperative operation in the "northern provinces" (Arctoae provinciae).
But after she had entered Bithynia, at the station called Caeni Gallicani, she was carried off by a sudden attack of fever. After her death the Caesar, considering that the support on which he thought he could rely had failed him, hesitated in anxious deliberation what to do.
Jan 22, 2016 · Nor is this information unique, contra n. 23, p. 259, since Amm. XIV, 11, 6 better preserves the full name of this post as Caeni Gallicani. More importantly, one cannot rely on the translation as far as technical terms are concerned.
But after she had entered Bithynia, at the station called Caeni Gallicani, she was carried off by a sudden attack of fever. After her death the Caesar, considering that the support on which he thought he could rely had failed him, hesitated in anxious deliberation what to do.
