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'''Flavius Illustrius Pusaeus''' was a 5th-century [[politician]] of the [[Roman Empire]] and a student of the [[Greeks|Greek]] [[philosopher]] Proclus. 

==Biography==
Pusaeus studied Greek philosophy, specifically [[Plato|Neoplatonism]], under Proclus.<ref name=O'Meara>{{harvnb|O'Meara|2003|pp=20–21}}.</ref> The other students in Proclus' [[school]] were Rufinus (high-level [[Athens|Athenian]] official), Severianus (provincial governor), Pamprepius ([[lecturer]] and supporter of Illus' rebellion), Marcellinus (patrician and ''magister militum'' of [[Dalmatia]]), Anthemius ([[Roman consul]] and emperor), and Flavius Messius Phoebus Severus (consul, [[patrician]] and prefect of [[Rome]]).<ref name=O'Meara/> In 465, Pusaeus held the position of ''praetorian prefect of the East''.<ref name=O'Meara/><ref name=Prosopography>{{harvnb|Martindale|1980|p=930}}.</ref> In 467, he was a consul while Anthemius was head of the [[Western Roman Empire]].<ref name=O'Meara/><ref name=Prosopography/> In [[Constantinople]], there is an inscription in [[Latin]] surrounded by inscriptions in Greek that reads: "Pusaeus, no less than the great Anthemius, strengthened towers and walls".<ref>{{harvnb|Grosvenor|1900|p=613}}.</ref> Pusaeus [[Death|died]] sometime before 486.<ref name=Prosopography/>

==References==
===Citations===
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===Sources===
*{{cite book|last=Grosvenor|first=Edwin Augustus|year=1900|title=Constantinople|volume=II|location=Boston|publisher=Little, Brown, and Company|url=https://archive.org/details/constantinople02grosuoft/page/n11/mode/2up}}
*{{cite book|last=Martindale|first=J. R.|year=1980|title=The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (Volume II A.D. 395–527)|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
*{{cite book|last=O'Meara|first=Dominic|year=2003|title=Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity|url=https://archive.org/details/platonopolisplat0000omea|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-925758-2}}

[[Category:5th-century people]]
[[Category:Roman people]]

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