VETRANIONE

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VETRANIONE. - General of the troops stationed in Illyria and Pannonia; after the death of Constant and the elevation of Magnentius, by the
VETRO - An Egyptian glass vessel in verde-antico glass, decorated with raised ovolos and incised gadroons beneath the rim (5th–6th cent. A.D.) — Turin, Civic Museum of Ancient Art.

Prusias in Bithynia (Dec. 350). There Vetranio lived for several more years on the ample revenues assigned him by Constantius, who also wrote him several letters urging him to remain quiet and reminding him of the great benefit he had conferred by freeing him from the cares of government.

BIBL.: Socrate, Hist. eccl., II, 25, 28; Sosseneno, Hist. eccl., IV, 1, 4; Zosimo, Historia, II; R. Paribeni, Da Diocleziano alla caduta dell’Imp. d’Occid., Bologna 1941, pp. 117 ff. Agostino Amore
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“VETRANIONE.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII (1954), p. 853. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/vetranione.