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But let us come to our subject. Maximinus, who formerly held the office of vice- 368 A.D. prefect at Rome, was born at Sopianae, a town of Valeria,Formerly a part of Pannonia (cf. xix. 11, 4). of very humble parents, his father being an accountant in the governor’s officeCf. praesidialis apparitor, xvii. 3, 6. and sprung from ancestors who were Carpi, a people whom Diocletian drove from its ancient abodeI.e., from Dacia, 294–6. and transferred to Pannonia.
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Maximinus, after some slight study of the liberal arts, and after acting as a pleader without acquiring distinction, became governor of Corsica, also of Sardinia, and finally of Tuscia.Etruria (in 366). then, because his successor lingered too long on the 369–70 A.D. way, although transferred to the charge of the city’s grain supply, he retained also the rule of Tuscia, and at the beginning acted with moderation, for a three-fold reason.
