emperor of the West, remarkable for his reign exhibiting the last effort of the Eastern
empire to support the sinking fortunes of the Western. He was the son of Procopius, and
son-in-law of the emperor Marcian, and on Ricimer applying to the eastern emperor Leo for a
successor to Majorian in the west, he was in de Reb.
Get. 100.45), Marcellinus (Chron.), and Theophanes (p. 101). See
Gibbon, Decline and Fall 100.36.