Roman emperor from 367 to 383
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A Roman emperor who renounced the gods. Gratian held the West from childhood, fought Germanic tribes across the Rhine, then dismantled fifteen centuries of state religion — declining the title of pontifex maximus, issuing the Edict of Thessalonica, tearing the Altar of Victory from the Senate floor. His army abandoned him to a usurper in 383.
Gratian became Augustus at eight, son of Valentinian I, and inherited the Western Empire at sixteen in 375 alongside his infant half-brother Valentinian II. He led a campaign across the Rhine, crushed the Lentienses, and forced their surrender. When his uncle Valens died at Adrianople in 378, Gratian elevated Theodosius to rule the East the following year. He then turned against Rome's ancestral religion: he refused the ancient office of pontifex maximus, co-issued the Edict of Thessalonica enforcing Nicene Christianity, and had the Altar of Victory removed from the Senate house. By 383 his so…
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If one over the age of seven takes a prepubescent wife of less than seven and transfers her to his house, such a contract gives rise to the impediment of public propriety.
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