Valentinianus Galates

'the Galatian', but Hughes instead considered it to honor Valens’ success over defeating the revolt of Procopius, as it was the province from where he had launched his campaign.

[3] Themistius's oration represents the desire of the Byzantine Senate that the imperial presence be rooted at the city by the installation of a new augustus resident there.

[2] According to Socrates Scholasticus, Dominica told her husband that she had been having visions that their son's illness was a punishment for Valens's ill-treatment of the city's Nicene Christian bishop Basil of Caesarea.

When asked to pray for Valentinianus, Basil is said to have responded by demanding that Valens give a commitment to orthodoxy as the condition for the boy's survival.

Valens refused to comply with Basil's demand to baptize his son into Nicene Christianity, instead giving Valentinianus an Arian baptism.

[6][7] In his Eleventh Oration, delivered after Valentinianus's death, Themistius invokes divine intervention to bring Valens more children.