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It seems that Anthemius was designated as Western Roman Emperor by Eastern Emperor Leo on the death of Libius Severus (475); but was not acknowleged in the West until 477. The reason for this delay is not clear, and does not necessarily result from some disagreement: during this troubled period it happened several times, for instance, that the name of a Consul designated for one part of the Roman world could not reach the other part before he was out of charge.

Third or twelfth mile[edit]

"Anthemius was proclaimed Emperor at the third or twelfth mile from Rome" ... what does that even mean? Are we talking distance? Is there some sort of significance to those numbers? What's the deal? howcheng {chat} 05:39, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Close paraphrasing[edit]

Some of the phrasing in the article - for instance, "the gens Procopia, which gave several high officers" - looks a little... old-fashioned. Has there been some close paraphrasing of a source such as the PLRE? (I don't have a copy to hand). bobrayner (talk) 18:47, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bilimer?[edit]

Who is Bilimer? Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 23:43, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Studying under Proclus?[edit]

“Born in Constantinople around 420, he went to Alexandria to study in the school of the Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus; among his fellow students there were Marcellinus (magister militum and governor of Illyricum), Flavius Illustrius Pusaeus (Praetorian prefect of the East and Consul in 467), Messius Phoebus Severus (Consul in 470 and praefectus urbi), and Pamprepius (Pagan poet).”

According to the article on Proclus, that philosopher left Alexandria for Athens in 431, when Anthemius would have been about eleven. And Proclus was still a student at the time; he didn’t become head of the Neoplatonic school at Athens until the death of Syrianus around 437. If that’s accurate, it seems probable that Anthemius either studied in Athens instead of Alexandria; or that he studied under someone other than Proclus.

Of his purported classmates, Marcellinus’ makes no mention of education; Pusaeus’ and Severus’ contain variations of the above-quoted paragraph; and the article on Pamprepius reports that he studied under Proclus at Athens beginning in 473 (at which time Anthemius was already dead). benadhem (talk) 23:35, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]