# Inportunus

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'''Inportunus''' ({{floruit}} 509–523) was a Roman aristocrat who lived during the reign of [Theodoric the Great](/source/Theodoric_the_Great). He held the [consulship](/source/Roman_consul) without colleague in 509.

Inportunus was the son of [Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius](/source/Caecina_Decius_Maximus_Basilius) (consul in 480), and brother of [Albinus](/source/Albinus_(consul_493)) (consul in 493), [Avienus](/source/Avienus_(consul_501)) (consul in 501), and [Theodorus](/source/Theodorus_(consul_505)) (consul in 505).<ref>Cassiodorus, ''Variae'' III.6.2; translated by S.J.B. Barnish, ''Cassiodorus: Variae'' (Liverpool: University press, 1992), p. 50</ref> John Moorhead argues that the brothers were on different sides of the [Laurentian schism](/source/Laurentian_schism), with Albinus and Avienus supporting [Symmachus](/source/Pope_Symmachus) and Theodore and Inportunus supporting [Laurentius](/source/Antipope_Laurentius). Moorhead also suggests that king Theodoric appointed Inportunus consul for 509 "as a sop to the adherents of the vanquished Laurentius."<ref>Moorhead, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4435873 "The Decii under Theoderic"], ''[Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte](/source/Historia%3A_Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Alte_Geschichte)'', '''33''' (1984), p. 109</ref>

While organizing the games to celebrate his consulate, Inportunus and his brother Theodorus were accused by the [Greens](/source/Greens_(Byzantine_Empire)) of attacking them and killing one of their members. A surviving letter of Theodoric commands both of them to provide answers to these allegations before the tribunal of the ''inlustrius'' Caelianus and Agapitus.<ref>Cassiodorus, ''Variae'' I.27; translated by Barnish, ''Cassiodorus'', pp. 19f</ref>

In 523, he was part of the entourage of [Pope John I](/source/Pope_John_I), who had been ordered by king Theodoric to proceed to [Constantinople](/source/Constantinople) and obtain a moderation of [Emperor Justin](/source/Justin_I)'s decree of 523 against the [Arians](/source/Arianism). Theodoric threatened that if John should fail in his mission, there would be reprisals against the orthodox Catholics in the West. Other [senators](/source/Roman_Senate) accompanying Pope John included his brother Theodorus, the ex-consul [Agapitus](/source/Agapitus_(consul_517)), and the patrician Agapitus.<ref>Raymond Davis (translator), ''The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis)'', first edition (Liverpool: University Press, 1989), p. 49</ref>

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Category:6th-century western Roman consuls
Category:Decii
Category:Patricii

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