i.c.18, p.

501) employed in the study of the Grecian philosophy he was named Praetorian praefect of Italy, in the year 397.
8.

While he still exercised that great office, he was created, it the year 399, consul for the West; and his name, on account of the infamy of his colleague, the eunuch Eutropius, often stands alone in the Fasti.

9.
In the year 408, Mallius was appointed a second time Praetorian praefect of Italy.

Even in the venal panegyric of Claudian, we may discover the merit of Mallius Theodorus, who, by a rare felicity, was the intimate friend, both of Symmachus and of St.Augustin.See Tillemont, Hist.