However when Maximus began an invasion of Italy in 387, Theodosius was forced to take action.

In 387 Maximus ' ambitions led him to invade Italy, resulting in his defeat by Theodosius I at the Battle of the Save in 388.

In 387 Maximus managed to force emperor Valentinian II out of Milan, after which he fled to Theodosius I.

In 386 or 387, Maximus crossed the Alps into the Po valley and threatened Milan.

The Ostrogoth invasion of 386, the revolt of Maximus in 387, the Antioch revolt of 387, the invasion of Gaul in 388, the massacres at Thessalonika and the rebellion of Argobastes and Eugenius in 393 had severely weakened the Roman Empire.

When Maximus was threatening to invade Italy in 387, his cause was openly advocated by Symmachus, who upon the arrival of Theodosius I was impeached of treason, and forced to take refuge in a sanctuary.

In 387, Maximus campaigned in Italy against Valentinian II.

In 387 Maximus invaded Italy, forcing Valentinian II to flee to the East, where he accepted Nicene Christianity.

In 387, the truce between Valentinian II and Maximus ended.

However, four years later in 387 CE Maximus invaded Italy seeking political control over the entire empire, which prompted the Eastern Emperor Theodosius I to gather his available armies, including the Goths, Huns, and Alans, along with his trusted commanders Arbogast and Richomeres to quash the rising authority of Maximus.

* Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper and Western Roman Emperor ( died 388 )

The armies of Theodosius and Maximus fought at the Battle of the Save in 388, which saw Maximus defeated.

On 28 August 388 Maximus was executed.

Theodosius I and Valentinian II then invaded from the east, and campaigned against Magnus Maximus in July – August 388, their troops being led by Richomeres and other generals.

In 388, Theodosius marched west and defeated Maximus.

When Magnus Maximus was overthrown by emperor Theodosius I in 388, Ausonius did not leave his country estates.

14 pieces, dealing with 17 towns ( Rome to Burdigala ), in hexameters, and composed after the downfall of Maximus in 388.

Traditionally she is said to have been a daughter of the Romano-British ruler Octavius and the wife of Macsen or Magnus Clemens Maximus, Emperor in Britain, Gaul and Spain, who was killed in battle in 388.

* 375 – 388: Merobaudes, magister peditum under Valentinian I, Gratian and Magnus Maximus

* Magnus Maximus, or Maximianus ( c. 335 – 388 ), usurping ruler of the Western Roman Empire

As Maximus himself was dead by the end of 388, and Constantine III departed from Britain with the last of Rome's military forces in 407, less than a generation later, it is doubtful that Rome had much direct influence over the military actions of the Votadini, either through Maximus or any other emissary, for any significant length of time.

According to the current view, this refers to the usurper Joannes ( r. 423 – 425 ), while according to the supporters of the traditional view, it indicates the gate's construction as a free-standing triumphal arch in 388 – 391 to commemorate the defeat of the usurper Magnus Maximus ( r. 385 – 388 ), and which was only later incorporated into the Theodosian Walls.

After few months of occupation in 388, citizens of Emona saluted Emperor Theodosius I entering the liberated city after the victorious Battle of the Save where Theodosius I defeated army of Roman usurper Magnus Maximus.

Marcomer ( Marcomeres, Marchomer, Marchomir ) was a Frankish leader ( dux ) in the late 4th century who invaded the Roman Empire in the year 388, when the usurper and leader of the whole of Roman Gaul, Magnus Maximus was surrounded in Aquileia by Theodosius I.

Maximus negotiated with Theodosius for acceptance as Augustus of the West, but Theodosius refused, gathered his armies, and counterattacked, winning the civil war in 388.

* Magnus Maximus ( 383 – 388 ), a Roman usurper

In July – August, 388, the combined troops of Theodosius I and Valentinian II invaded the territory of Maximus under the leadership of Richomeres, Arbogast, Promotus and Timasius.

The campaign against Maximus came to an end only a year later in 388 CE after Maximus was defeated at Poetovio by the armies of Theodosius I and retreated from the Julian Alps towards Aquileia, where he believed he would be safe until his reinforcements arrived. I This was not the case however, and Maximus was surrendered to Theodosius I and was executed on August 28, 388 CE with his head then making a tour of the provinces.

The Historia Augusta, Life of Antoninus Caracalla, relates ( 10. 5 ) that Caracalla then assumed the name Alemannicus, at which Helvius Pertinax jested that he should really be called Geticus Maximus, because in the year before he had murdered his brother, Geta.

Lappius Maximus received the governorship of the province of Syria, a consulship in May 95, and finally a priesthood which he still held in 102.

However, it is not clear the extent to which Maximus sought this position due to his own ambition or if he was merely a pawn in the power struggle.

While Elagabalus was still on his way to Rome, brief revolts broke out by the Fourth Legion at the instigation of Gellius Maximus, and the Third Legion, which itself had been responsible for the elevation of Elagabalus to the throne, under the command of Senator Verus.

# " the practice of inner prayer, aiming at union with God on a level beyond images, concepts and language ", a sense in which the term is found in Evagrius Ponticus ( 345-399 ), Maximus the Confessor ( c. 580-662 ), and Symeon the New Theologian ( 949-1022 );

He took the wealthy town of Suessa Pometia, with the spoils of which he commenced the erection of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus which his father had vowed.

Tarquin completed the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill which had been vowed and possibly begun by his father.

During his short reign he campaigned against the Goths and the Heruli, for which he received the title Gothicus Maximus.

His half-brother, the Praetorian Prefect Florianus, and Tacitus himself won a victory against these tribes, among which were the Heruli, which gained the emperor the title Gothicus Maximus.

It has been speculated that they originally were Roman bidets or imperial birthing stools, which because of their age and imperial links were used in ceremonies by Popes intent on highlighting their own imperial claims ( as they did also with their Latin title, Pontifex Maximus ).

He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.

This mysterious Western, offshoot of Gnosticism had no single feature about it which could soften the hostility of a character such as Martin's, but he resisted the introduction of secular punishment for evil doctrine, and withdrew from communion with those bishops in Gaul, a large majority, who invoked the aid of Maximus against their erring brethren.

** Fabius Maximus Cunctator, Roman general and statesman whose cautious delaying tactics ( which have led to his surname Cunctator, meaning " delayer ") during the early stages of the Second Punic War has given Rome time to recover its strength and take the offensive against the invading Carthaginian army of Hannibal ( b. c. 275 BC )

Negotiations followed in 384 including the intervention of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, leading to an accord with Valentinian II and Theodosius I in which Maximus was recognized as Augustus in the west.

We also encounter an otherwise unrecorded daughter of Magnus Maximus, Sevira, on the Pillar of Eliseg, an early medieval inscribed stone in Wales which claims her marriage to Vortigern, king of the Britons.

Legendary versions of Maximus ' career in which he marries the Welsh princess Elen may have been in popular circulation in Welsh speaking areas from an early point.

Pope Martin I and the monk Maximus, the foremost opponents of monothelitism ( which they interpreted as denying a human faculty of will to Christ ), held a synod in Rome in 649 that condemned monoenergism and monothelitism.

When the council had concluded, the decrees were sent to Rome where they were confirmed by Agatho's successor, Pope Leo II The subsequent Byzantine tradition came to interpret the decrees in line with the teaching of Maximus the Confessor, which brilliantly combined a recognition ( shared with the monotheletes ) that all Christ's individual actions were directed by his divine will with an insistence that his human will nevertheless possessed true spontaneity, in virtue of its intrinsic drive ( as created ) to obey its Creator.

* Fabius Maximus Cunctator, Roman general and statesman whose cautious delaying tactics ( which have led to his surname Cunctator, meaning " delayer ") during the early stages of the Second Punic War has given Rome time to recover its strength and take the offensive against the invading Carthaginian army of Hannibal ( b. c. 275 BC )