(Anicius) Maximus (died 552) was a Roman senator and patrician during the Ostrogothic kingdom, who celebrated the last games in the Flavian Amphitheater.
[3] Maximus married for the first time in 510,[3] then obtained, at a young age, the consulate in the West sine collega for the year 523.
Between 525 and 535, he was elevated to the rank of patricius;[4] King Theodahad gave him an Ostrogothic princess as wife in 535,[5] appointed him primicerius domesticorum and gave him the property of Marcianus, which later Justinian I had him split with Liberius.
In 537, during the Siege of Rome in the Gothic War, Maximus was expelled from the city along with other senators at the behest of Belisarius, who was afraid that they would collaborate with the Gothic besiegers, only to return at the end of the siege in 538.
[6] On 17 December 546, however, King Totila was able to take the Urbs, and Maximus and other patricii hid in Old St. Peter's Basilica.