122. As in a former period I have traced the civil and
military promotion of Pertinax, I shall here insert the
civil honours of Mallius Theodorus. 1. He was distinguished
by his eloquence while he pleaded as an advocate in the
court of the Praetorian praefect. 2. He governed one of the
provinces of Africa, either as president or consular, and
deserved, by his administration, the honour of a brass
statue. 3. He was appointed vicar, or vice-praefect of
Macedonia. 4. Quaestor. 5. Count of the sacred largesses. 6.
Praetorian praefect of the Gauls; whilst he might yet be
represented as a young man. 7. Alter a retreat, perhaps a
disgrace, of many years, which Mallius (confounded by some
critics with the poet Manilius, see Fabricius Bibliothec.
Latin edit. Ernest. tom. i. c. 18, p. 501 ) employed in the
study of the Grecian philosophy, he was named Praetorian
praefect of Italy, in the year 397. 8. While he still
exercised that great office, he was created, in the year
399, consul for the West; and his name, on account of the
infamy of his colleague, the eunuch Eutropius, often stands
alone in the Fasti. 9. In the year 408 Mallius was appointed
a second time Praetorian praefect of Italy. Even in the
venal panegyric of Claudian we may discover the merit of
Mallius Theodorus, who, by a rare felicity, was the intimate
friend both of Symmachus and of St. Augustin. See Tillemont,
Hist. des Emp. tom. v. p. 1110-1114.