Marcian

[ mahr-shuhn ]

noun

1. a.d. 392?–457, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 450–457.

Example Sentences

And somewhere or other among them Marcian, quite neglected, was sleeping.

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This law, which is found in the Theodosian code, was revoked by Marcian and Justinian.

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It runs parallel with the Claudian and the Marcian, near Rome, in some places being built out of their remains and on their piers.

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The emperor Marcian approved the doctrinal decrees of the council and enjoined silence in regard to theological questions.

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Of these, however, there is one which was built in Blachernæ, in the beginning of Marcian I's reign of divine memory.

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