Apollonius (Greek: Άπολλώνιος; fl. 443–451) was a general of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Biography
Apollonius was a Pagan and well-educated.Theodoret, Epistolae 73. Before 448 he converted to Christianity.Theodoret, Epistolae 103. He received two letters by Theodoret.
He was magister militum praesentalis in the East at least since 443A law preserved in the Corpus Iuris Civilis (XII 54,4) and issued on January 28 443 was addressed to Apollonius. and until 451, when he was sent to Attila as ambassador; in that occasion the King of the Huns sent Apollonius back as he had not brought the tribute Attila had been expecting.Priscus, History, fragment 18.
Apollonius might be the Flavius Apollonius who was consul in 460.
Notes
Bibliography Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Apollonius 3", The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Cambridge University Press, 1980, , p. 121.