latronian

Updated: May 14, 2025

Two presbyters, and two deacons, accompanied their beloved master in his death, which they esteemed as a glorious martyrdom; and the number of religious victims was completed by the execution of Latronian, a poet, who rivalled the fame of the ancients; and of Euchrocia, a noble matron of Bordeaux, the widow of the orator Delphidius.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3