, damaged by an earthquake in January 447 and restored by Constantinus in sixty days. A native of
Laodicea of Phrygia, Constantinus was named
praetorian prefect of the East for the first time around 447, when he restored the
Walls of Constantinople, which had been damaged by an earthquake that January. As the
Huns of
Attila were moving towards
Constantinople, Constantinus mobilised the factions of the
Hippodrome of Constantinople to gather 16,000 workers: the Blues worked the stretch of walls from the Gate of Blachernae to the Gate of Myriandrion, the Greens from there to the
Sea of Marmara; in sixty days, by the end of March, the walls were restored and the moat cleaned. A bilingual inscription was erected to celebrate the works. While in office, he received a letter from
Theodoret of Cyrrhus, asking for a reduction of the taxation on his city, while another was received after he left office. After leaving office in 451, he participated in some sessions of the
Council of Chalcedon. In 456 he was appointed prefect for the second time. Constantinus was appointed
consul in 457, with Rufus as his colleague (they were both chosen by the Eastern court), then prefect of the East for the third time in 459. He received the title of
patricius after 457. In 464/465 he was sent as an envoy to the
Sassanid Persian king
Peroz I. He waited at
Edessa, then was received at Peroz's court. The Persians had several complaints, and asked for Roman financial contributions for the defence of the
Caspian Gates, but the Romans refused and Constantinus was dismissed without achieving anything. == Notes ==