or DALMA'TIUS.
1. Son of Constantius Chlorus and his second wife, Flavia Maximiana Theodora. From his
half-brother, Constantine the Great, he received the title of censor, which had lain dormant
since the attempt of Decius to revive it in the person of Valerian, and now appears for the
last time among the dignities of Rome. Delmatius was entrusted with the task of investigating
the charge brought by the Arians against Athanasius of having murdered Arsenius, bishop of
Hypselis [ATHANASIUS, p. 394], and appears to have died before the
year Histoire des
Empereurs, vol. iv. p. 288.) He was the father of