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A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines, Volumes I–IV is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this four-volume set, editors William Smith and Henry Wace provide a comprehensive collection of biographical material: more than 4,000 pages of articles and historical information on the early Christian church. An excellent resource for identifying significant people and events, this in-depth tome covers the first eight centuries of Christianity, picking up where Smith’s Bible Dictionary...

, emperor of the West, afterwards bishop of Salona. In March 473, being at that time comes domesticorum, he asserted the imperial title at Ravenna in succession to Olybrius; but the emperor of the East, Leo I. the Thracian, set up Julius Nepos in opposition, who was proclaimed at Ravenna late in 473 or early in 474, marched against Glycerius and took him prisoner at Portus. (See art. GLYCERIUS in the Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Biog.) It is the episcopate of Glycerius that claims the chief
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