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See also:CONSTANTINE II . (317—340), son of Constantine the See also:Great, See also:Roman See also:emperor (337—340), was See also:born at Arelate (See also:Arles) in See also:February 317. On the 1st of See also:March in the same See also:year he was created See also:Caesar, and was See also:consul in 320, 321, 324 and 329. The fifth anniversary of his Caesarship was celebrated by the panegyrist See also:Nazarius (q.v.). He gained the See also:credit of the victories of his generals over the See also:Alamanni (331, for which he received the See also:title Alamannicus), and over the Goths (332). From 335 he administered the Gallic portion of the See also:empire as Caesar till his See also:father's See also:death (22nd of May 337). On the 9th of See also:September in the same year he assumed the title of See also:Augustus, together with his See also:brothers See also:Constans and See also:Constantius, and in 338 a See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting was held at Viminiacum, on the See also:borders of See also:Pannonia, to arrange the See also:distribution of the empire. In accordance with the arrangements made by his father, Constantine received See also:Britain, See also:Spain and the Gauls; See also:Pontus, See also:Asia, the See also:East, and See also:Egypt See also:fell to Constantius; See also:Africa, Pannonia and the Italies to the youngest See also:brother Constans, whose dominions were further increased by the addition of See also:Macedonia, See also:Dalmatia and See also:Thrace, originally intended for Delmatius, a See also:nephew of Constantine I. and one of the victims of the See also:general See also:massacre of that emperor's kinsmen. By virtue of his seniority, Constantine claimed a See also:kind of See also:control over his brothers. Constans, an ambitious youth encouraged by intriguing advisers, declined to submit; and Constantine, jealous of his prerogatives and dissatisfied with his See also:share in the empire, demanded from Constans the cession of Africa and equal authority in See also:Italy. After protracted but unavailing negotiations, Constantine in 340 invaded Italy. He had advanced as far as See also:Aquileia, when he fell into an ambuscade and lost his See also:life. His See also:body was thrown into the little See also:river Alsa, but subsequently recovered and buried with royal honours.
See See also:Zosimus ii. xii. ; Aurelius See also:Victor, Epit. 41; See also:Eusebius, Vita Constantin, iv.; O. Seeck in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie, iv. pt. i (1900); See also:Gibbon, Decline and Fall, ch. 18.
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