Imperial honours for Valentinian and Valens
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: CE 375-378
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Diuina stirpe progenitos Dominis Nostris tribus imperatores Caesares Gratianum et Valentinianum et Valentem pios Felices semper Augustos [...]

Translations

Born of [divine] stock, [Valentinian and Gratia]n and Valens, pious, [ fortunate, eternal Augusti].

Commentary

Line 1. For divina stirpe progenito apparently for Valentinian II see dedications by the governor of Tripolitania at Lepcis IRT 476 and also at Gigthis (ILS 779); the term was also used of Constantine and his sons: see E. Sironen, Lateinische Ehreninschriften für Constantin den Großen und seine Nachfolger, (2001). The emphasis on divine descent suggests that the emperors honoured here are Valentinian II and Gratian (as being the sons of an emperor) with their uncle Valens: this would indicate the period after the death of Valentinian I, in 375, and before the death of Valens in 379.