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This image is a fictional historical visualization. No authentic portrait of Aurelius Victor Augentius is known to survive.
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Aurelius Victor Augentius

Pater Patrum of the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite

Biography
of Aurelius Victor Augentius

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Son of the patriarch of the Olympius saga, of senatorial rank, who for at least three generations watched over a Mithraic community in the 4th century Rome.

Aurelius is the son of Nonius Victor Olympius and father of Emilianus Corfo Olympius and Tamesius Augentius Olympius. He was initiated as a Corax in 346, Pater in 357-362 and Pater Patrum in 376.

Attestations

Altar dedicated by Pater Patrum Augentius

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This altar, now lost, mentions that the Pater Patrum passed on the attributes of the sacred Corax to his son.

Dd[ominis] nn[ostris] Valente V et Valentiniano / iuniore primum Augg[ustis] VI idus april[es] / tradidit hierocoracica Aur[elius] Victor / Augentius v[ir] c[larissimus] p[ater] p[atrum] filio suo Emiliano / Corfoni Olympio c[larissimo] p[uero] anno tricensimo / acceptionis suae felic[iter].
Under [the Consulate] of our lords the Augustinians Valens, for the fifth time, and Valentinian the Younger, for the first time, on the sixth day before the ides of April, Aurelius Victor Augentius, clarissimo, Father of the Fathers, passed to his son Emilianus Corfo Olympius, clarissimo child, the attributes of the Sacred Raven, in the thirtieth year of his own admission, with happiness.

Altar to a Perses of S. Silvestro in Capite

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This monument was erected on the occasion of the elevation of a member to the Mithraic grade of Perses.

Datiano et Cereale cons[ulibus] / Nonius Victor Olympius v[ir] cl[arissimus] p[ater] p[atrum] [et] / Aur[elius] Victor Augentius v[ir] c[larissimus] p[ater] / tradiderunt Persica pri[die] non[as] april[es] / fel[iciter]. / Consulibus s[upra] sc[riptis] tradiderunt [h]eliaca / XVI kal[endas] ma/i[as] / felic[iter].
Under the consulship of [Censorius] Datianus and [Neratius] Cerealis, Nonius Victor Olympius, clarissimo, Father of the Fathers, and Aurelius Victor Augentius, clarissimo, Father, transmitted the attributes of the Persian on the eve of the nones of April, with success. Under the aforementioned consuls, they transmitted the attributes of the Sun, on the sixteenth day before the calendas of May, with success.

Inscription of the Olympius for a Leo

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The inscription explains the transmission of the fourth Mithraic degree through the Paters of the Mitraeum of San Silvestro.

Constantio VIllI et Iuliano II con[s[ulibus]] / Nonius Victor Olympius v[ir] c[larissimus] p[ater] p[atrum] / et Aur[elius] Victor Augentius v[ir] [c[larissimus]] pater / tradiderunt leontica IIII idus / aug[ustas] felic[iter]. / Alia tradiderunt cons[ulibus] supra s[criptis] / XVII kal[endas] oct[obres] felic[iter].
Under the Consulate of Constantius for the ninth time and Julian for the second time, Nonius Victor Olympus, clarissimo, Father of the Fathers, and Aurelius Victor Augentius, clarissimo, Father, transmitted the attributes of the Lion on the fourth day before the ides of August, with success. They transmitted others under the aforementioned consuls on the seventeenth day before the calends of October, with success.

Inscription recording leontica initiations, S. Silvestro, Rome

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Inscription recording the transmission of the leontica grade by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 359 and 358 A.D.

Eusebio [et Hy]patio cons(ulibus) / Nonius Victor Olympius v(ir) c(larissimus) / et Aur(elius) Victor Augentius v(ir) c(larissimus) / tradiderunt leontica V idus / martias feliciter.

Datiano et Cereale con[s(ulibus)] / Nonius Victor Olympius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(ater) p(atrum) / et Aur(elius) Victor Augentius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(ater) / tradiderunt leontic[a XVI? k]al(endas) apri[l(es)] felic(iter).
Under the consulship of Eusebius and Hypatius, Nonius Victor Olympius, vir clarissimus, and Aurelius Victor Augentius, vir clarissimus, conferred the grade of Leo on the fifth day before the Ides of March, successfully.

Under the consulship of Datianus and Cerealis, Nonius Victor Olympius, vir clarissimus and Pater Patrum, together with Aurelius Victor Augentius, vir clarissimus and Pater, conferred the grade of Leo on the sixteenth day before the Kalends of April, successfully.

Inscription recording Mithraic initiations from S. Silvestro, Rome

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Inscription CIL VI 750 recording the transmission of the Persica and Heliaca grades by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 358 A.D.

Datiano et Cereale cons(ulibus) / Nonius Victor Olympius v(ir) cl(arissimus) p(ater) p(atrum) [et] Aur(elius) Victor Augentius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(ater) / tradiderunt persica pri(die) non(as) april(es) / fel(iciter). / Consulibus s(upra) sc(riptis) tradiderunt [h]eliaca / XVI kal(endas) ma/i(as) / felic(iter).
Under the consulship of Datianus and Cerealis, Nonius Victor Olympius, vir clarissimus and Pater Patrum, together with Aurelius Victor Augentius, vir clarissimus and Pater, conferred the grade of Perses on the day before the Nones of April, successfully. Under the aforementioned consuls, they conferred the grade of Heliodromus on the sixteenth day before the Kalends of May, successfully.

Mitreo di San Silvestro in Capite

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This Mithraic temple, also known as the Mithraeum of the Olympii, dates to the 3rd century and was rediscovered in 15th-century Rome, but it has not been preserved.

Slab with dedicatory poem from near S. Silvestro, Rome

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Large marble slab found in 1648 near S. Silvestro in Capite, inscribed with a Latin dedicatory poem forming a cypher-acrostic for TAMESIUS and AUGENTIUS, with records of leontica and chrysos initiations, dated to 362 A.D.

Olim Victor avus, caelo devotus et astris / Regali sumptu Phoebeia templa locavit. / Hunc superat pietate nepos, cui nomen avitum est: / Antra facit, sumptusque tuos nec Roma requirit; / Damna piis meliora lucro: quis ditior illo est / Qui cum caelicolis parcus bona dividit heres?

Mamertino et Nebitta co[ns(ulibus)] / Nonius Victor Olympius v(ir) c(larissimus) [p(ater) p(atrum)] / et Aur(elius) Victor Augentius v(ir) [c(larissimus) p(ater)] / tradiderunt leontica kal(endis) apr(ilibus) felic(iter). / Al[i]a tradiderunt con[s(ulibus)] s(upra) s(criptis) VI idu(s) apr(iles) felic(iter). / Cons(ulibus) s(upra) s(criptis) tradiderunt chryfios (sic!) VI idu(s) apr(iles) felic(iter).
Long ago my grandfather Victor, devoted to the heavens and the stars, established the temples of Phoebus at princely expense. His grandson, who bears his grandfather’s name, surpasses him in devotion: he has built this cave sanctuary, and Rome asks no contribution from your wealth. For the pious, expenditure is better than profit. Who is richer than the heir who generously shares his possessions with the dwellers of heaven?

Under the consulship of Mamertinus and Nevitta, Nonius Victor Olympius, vir clarissimus [and Pater Patrum], together with Aurelius Victor Augentius, vir clarissimus [and Pater], conferred the grade of Leo on the Kalends of April, successfully. They conferred other grades under the aforementioned consuls on the sixth day before the Ides of April, successfully. Under the same consuls, they conferred the status of cryfii on the sixth day before the Ides of April, successfully.
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