Around 350, he seems to have registered as citizen in Constantinople in order to join the new imperial senate.
[2] At some time before 356, he visited with his family the hermits Anthony the Great and Hilarion in Egypt and Gaza, respectively.
[4] In 360, he succeeded Flavius Hermogenes as Preatorian prefect of the East and is attested in office on 4 February 360.
The oratio consists in an attempt to defend the memory of Julian while discrediting his accusers Polycles and Helpidius.
Their daughter Priscilla married Bassianus in 363, the son of the Antiochean praetorian prefect Thalassius, who owned large landholdings in Antioch, Tyre and the province of Euphratensis.