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Marcian

American  
[mahr-shuhn] / ˈmɑr ʃən /
Also Marcianus

noun

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


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Others are new to the project, including Italian conductor Gianluca Marcian, taking to the pit for the first time in a London opera house.

From Reuters • Oct. 25, 2013

This tribunal," said Presiding Magistrate Marcian Dumont, when evidence was all in, "approves of your fine work and says 'bravo.'

From Time Magazine Archive

In 457, the Theodosian house becomes extinct in the East by the death of the emperor Marcian, before whom the heiress of the empire, St. Pulcheria, granddaughter of the great Thedosius, had died in 453.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

In this letter he reminds Zeno of the acts of his predecessors, Marcian and Leo: that he owed gratitude to God for bringing him back.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

She selected Marcian, a tried officer, to whom she gave her hand in formal marriage.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly