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Abla'vius

1. Prefect of the city, the minister and favourite of Constantine the Great was murdered after the death of the latter. (Zosimus, 2.40.) He was consul A. D. 331. Their is an epigram extant attributed to him, in which the reigns of Nero and Constantine are compared. (Anth. Lat. n. 2 (61, ed. Meyer.)

Abla'vius

2. A Roman historian, whose age is unknown, wrote a history of the Goths, which is sometimes quoted by Jornandes as his authority. (De Reb. Getic. 4.14. 23.)

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