Fabius Aconius Catullinus signo Philomathius (floruit 338-349) was an aristocrat and a politician of the Late Roman Empire.

Biography

Philomathius was the son of Aconius Catullinus, Proconsul of Africa in 317-318, and had a daughter, Aconia Fabia Paulina

Aconia Fabia Paulina

Aconia Fabia Paulina was an aristocratic woman and one of the last pagan Romans who tried to save the Roman religion from decline.- Biography :...

, who married the influential pagan senator Vettius Agorius Praetextatus

Vettius Agorius Praetextatus

Vettius Agorius Praetextatus was a wealthy pagan aristocrat in 4th-century Roman Empire and a high priest in the cults of numerous gods...

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Philomatius held the offices of Consul suffectus, Praeses

Praeses

Praeses , is a Latin word meaning "Seated in front of, i.e. at the head ", has both ancient and modern uses.-Roman imperial use:...

of Gallaecia

Gallaecia

Gallaecia or Callaecia, also known as Hispania Gallaecia, was the name of a Roman province and an early Mediaeval kingdom that comprised a territory in the north-west of Hispania...

, vicarius

Vicarius

Vicarius is a Latin word, meaning substitute or deputy. It is the root and origin of the English word "vicar" and cognate to the Persian word most familiar in the variant vizier....

of Africa (338-339), Praetorian Prefect of Italy

Praetorian prefecture of Italy

The praetorian prefecture of Italy ) was one of four large Praetorian prefectures into which the Late Roman Empire was divided. It comprised the Italian peninsula, the Western Balkans, the Danubian provinces and parts of North Africa...

 (attested on 24 June 341, out of office before 6 July 342), Praefectus urbi

Praefectus urbi

The praefectus urbanus or praefectus urbi, in English the urban prefect, was prefect of the city of Rome, and later also of Constantinople. The office originated under the Roman kings, continued during the Republic and Empire, and held high importance in late Antiquity...

of Rome in 342-344 and finally Consul

Roman consul

A consul served in the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic.Each year, two consuls were elected together, to serve for a one-year term. Each consul was given veto power over his colleague and the officials would alternate each month...

 in 349.

A pagan, he obtained an exemption for the temples in Rome from the ban over the celebration of pagan sacrifices (Codex Theodosianus

Codex Theodosianus

The Codex Theodosianus was a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312. A commission was established by Theodosius II in 429 and the compilation was published in the eastern half of the Roman Empire in 438...

, xvi.10.3); a dedication to Jupiter Optimus Maximus by Philomathius has been preserved .