Licinius Chart
The tables below are reproductions of the charts found in chapter V of The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982) by T.D. Barnes. Minor stylistic changes have been made to improve consistency.
The tables below are adapted and reproduced with permission from T.D. Barnes, The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982).
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Principal Residences
| Year | Location |
|---|---|
| 308–316 | Sirmium and perhaps Naissus |
| 316/7 | On campaign |
| 317–324 | Nicomedia |
Attested Movements
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 308, Nov. 11 | Invested as Augustus at Carnuntum | Lactantius, Mort. Pers. 29.1 f.; Chr. Min. 1.231 |
| 310, June 27 | Victory over the Sarmatians | ILS 664; Tables 6, 7 |
| 311, June 9 | At Serdica | FIRA 1.93 |
| 311, summer | Negotiates with Maximinus at the Bosporus | Lactantius, Mort. Pers. 36.1 f. |
| 313, early Feb. | Leaves Carnuntum and travels posthaste to Italy | Theomnestus, Hippiatrica Berolnensia 34.12 |
| 313, Feb. | Marries Constantine’s sister at Milan | Lactantius, Mort. Pers. 46.8 ff. |
| 313, early May | Advances to Nicomedia | Lactantius, Mort. Pers. 48.1 |
| 313, June 13 | At Nicomedia | Lactantius, Mort. Pers. 48.1 |
| 313, summer | Crosses Asia Minor | Lactantius, Mort. Pers. 49.1 |
| 313, autumn | At Antioch | Lactantius, Mort. Pers. 50.6; Eusebius, HE 9.11 |
| 313 or 314 | Campaigns on the Persian frontier | ILS 8942; 696 |
| 314 or 315 | Campaigns against the Goths | ILS 8942; 696 |
| Between 314 and 316 | At Tropaeum Traiani | ILS 8938 |
| 316, Sept./Oct. | At Sirmium | Origo 16; [Julian], Epp. 181, 449a |
| 316, Oct. 8 | At Cibalae | Origo 16; Chr. Min. 1.231 (year wrongly given as 314) |
| 316, Oct. 9 | At Sirmium | Origo 16 |
| 316, after Oct. 9 | Flees to Dacia and then to Adrianople | Origo 17; [Julian], Epp. 181, 449a |
| c. 317, Jan. | Defeated at the battle of the Campus Adriensis and withdraws to Beroea | Origo 18 |
| c. 318 | Campaign against the Sarmatians | P. Oxy. 889 |
| 318, June 23 | At Byzantium? | CTh 1.27.1 |
| 323, Apr. 13 | At Byzantium? | CTh 11.30.12, 12.1.8 |
| 324, July 3 | Defeated at Adrianople | Origo 24; Zosimus 2.22.4 ff., cf. CIL 1, p. 268; Chr. Min. 1.232 |
| 324, July?–Sept.? | Besieged in Byzantium | Origo 25; Zosimus 2.25.1 ff. |
| 324, Sept. | Flees to Chalcedon | Origo 27; Zosimus 2.25.1 |
| 324, Sept. 18 | Retreats to Nicomedia | Praxagoras, FGrH 219; Zosimus 2.26.3; Philostorgius, p. 180.13 ff. Bidez |
| 324, Sept. 19 | Abdicates and is then sent to Thessalonica | Origo 28–29; Epitome 41.7; Zosimus 2.28 |
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