He was appointed to the post of consul for the year 526, which he held without a colleague.
[2] Olybrius, most certainly a westerner, was a member of the prestigious Anicius family.
[1] Following his tenure as consul, which was recognised both in the East and in the West, he held the rank of patricius.
[1] He was in Rome when the Ostrogothic king Totila captured the city.
[3] Captured and sent to Campania, he was still there when Narses conquered Rome in 552; the senators were preparing to return to Rome, but the Goths who guarded them, enraged by the death of Totila, killed them all.