Alypius was the son of
Clodius Celsinus Adelphius,
Praefectus urbi of Rome in 351, and of the Christian poet
Faltonia Betitia Proba. His brother,
Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius, was
Roman consul in 379. In 370/371 he was exiled, under the investigations of
Maximinus. In 378 he held a high office in
Mauretania, possibly
vicarius of
Africa. On June 12, 391, he is attested ad
Praefectus urbi of Rome. In 393 he was sent to the court of Emperor
Eugenius, on occasion of the celebrations for the consulship of
Virius Nicomachus Flavianus for the following year. He was the addressee of some letters by
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, showing he was alive in 397, and maybe even from
Ambrose. == Notes ==