| When his courtiers and attendants had bowed their way out of the room, Valentinian summoned Faustinus into an antechamber. |
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| Valentinian II was sent to Trier, accompanied by the Frankish general Arbogast to control him. |
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| His contribution to the more elaborate mythologies of the Valentinian tradition, however, remains uncertain. |
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| Valentinian sources often use the image of a school to describe the purpose of one's existence in this world. |
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| Then Arbogast, after Valentinian II's death in 392 under shadowy circumstances, proclaimed as emperor the rhetorician Eugenius. |
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| A comparison of the tractate's content with the Valentinian systems described by the heresiologists reveals a large number of common expressions and motifs. |
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| As Valentinian tradition illustrates, the myths usually categorized as gnostic do not always demonize the creator, as was the case in the Apocryphon of John. |
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| Theodosius restored Valentinian II, still a very young man, as Augustus in the West. |
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| In 454 Aetius was personally stabbed to death by Valentinian, who was himself murdered by the dead general's supporters a year later. |
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| In an effort to bring the Vandals into the fold of the Empire, Valentinian III offered his daughter's hand in marriage to Genseric's son. |
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| Petronius Maximus, the usurper, killed Valentinian III in an effort to control the Empire. |
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| Valentinian died of an apoplexy while personally shouting at envoys of Germanic leaders. |
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| Heresiological pieces return in subsequent chapters devoted to Sethian, Basilidean, Valentinian, and three-principle systems. |
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| In the same year, Theodosius again relinquished the West to his co-emperor Valentinian but secured his own influence by placing the Frankish general Arbogast, a man he trusted, at Valentinian's side as principal adviser. |
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| The most famous of these are the Valentinian traditions that Irenaeus and other heresiologists discuss at great length and which are also found among the Nag Hammadi works. |
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| Speculation that Rotburg Castle may have been the legendary Robur fortress of Emperor Valentinian I intended to provide protection against the Germanic tribes seems implausible. |
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| Ambrose disliked Pagans, under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism. |
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| Ambrose prevailed upon Gratian, Valentinian and Theodosius to reject requests to restore the Altar. |
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| In 386 Justina and Valentinian received the Arian bishop Auxentius the younger, and Ambrose was again ordered to hand over a church in Milan for Arian usage. |
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| Around 370 AD, the line of fortifications was considerably strengthened under the Emperor Valentinian I to counter the Alemanni who were steadily advancing southwards. |
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| Valentinian and Sethian texts cannot be put into a single system. |
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| Although the western Emperor Gratian supported orthodoxy, the younger Valentinian II, who became his colleague in the Empire, adhered to the Arian creed. |
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| In 385 Ambrose, backed by Milan's populace, refused Valentinian II's imperial request to hand over the Portian basilica for the use of Arian troops. |
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