Described only as an elderly senator of around 60 who replaced Valentinian III, quickly forced the widowed empress to marry him, bribed everyone for control of the palace, then showed remarkable lack of tact by embracing Valentinian's murderers. When the Vandals arrived, he advised citizens to flee, was blamed for the disaster, dismembered by the populace, and his pieces thrown into the Tiber.
Also known as: Petronius Maximus
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Episode 6 (10 mentions)
Described only as an elderly senator of around 60 who replaced Valentinian III, quickly forced the widowed empress to marry him, bribed everyone for control of the palace, then showed remarkable lack of tact by embracing Valentinian's murderers. When the Vandals arrived, he advised citizens to flee, was blamed for the disaster, dismembered by the populace, and his pieces thrown into the Tiber.
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