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commander of praetorians; [it was he] who put forward Valentinian as emperor.[1] And he, having become emperor, appointed a successor to him[2] and set up public notices, in order that, if a person had received an injustice from him, he [sc. the victim] would appear before the emperor. But no one appeared; for Salustius was the purest of men. When the praepositus[3] Rhodanus[4] had wronged a certain widow called Veronica, and she appeared before the emperor, this Valentinian gave the case to Sallustius as judge. He condemned the praepositus; and when the latter had expressed his contempt, he placed the praepositus on the cavalry fire, and gave all the property of the chief eunuch to the widow; and, in fear, [people] abstained from every injustice.

Σαλούστιος, ἔπαρχος πραιτωρίων: ὃς προεβάλετο βασιλέα Βαλεντινιανόν. ὁ δὲ βασιλεύσας διεδέξατο αὐτὸν καὶ ἔθηκε προθέματα, ἵνα, εἴ τίς τι ἠδίκηται παρ' αὐτοῦ, προσέλθῃ τῷ βασιλεῖ. οὐδεὶς δὲ προσῆλθεν: ἦν γὰρ ἁγνότατος ὁ Σαλούστιος. οὗτος δὲ ὁ Βαλεντινιανὸς τὸν πραιπόσιτον Ῥοδανόν, ἀδικήσαντα Βερονίκην τινὰ χήραν, ἧς προσελθούσης τῷ βασιλεῖ, ἔδωκε δικαστὴν Σαλούστιον. ὁ δὲ κατεδίκασε τὸν πραιπόσιτον, καὶ τούτου καταφρονήσαντος, τὸν πραιπόσιτον ἐν τῷ ἱππικῷ πυρὶ παραδίδωσι καὶ τὴν κτῆσιν πᾶσαν τοῦ ἀρχιευνούχου τῇ χήρᾳ δίδωσι: καὶ φοβηθέντες πάσης ἀδικίας ἀπέσχοντο.

For this man see already pi 1326 and especially sigma 63 (latter part), where he is presented as “a commander of the palace under [the emperor] Julian”. T. Banchich (1988: 224) suggests that he must be Julian’s praetorian prefect Saturninius Secundus Salutius (sic), mentioned by Eunapius of Sardis in this Suda passage ( = Eunapius, Fragmenta Historica 1.231.13-25 Dindorf) -– and in his extant Life of the Sophists 479 (52.20, 53.9-10, ed. Giangrande). When Julian died, the armny offered the succession to Salustius (Fowden 1926: 547). Salustius (or Salutius -- see Banchich 1988: 224, n.6) was Julian’s close friend and adviser; he wrote a treatise On the gods and the world, where he defended, among others, the thesis of the ingenerability, eternity (2.1), and incorporeality (2.2) of god. He also argued for the immortality of the soul (8.3).
If the 'Sallustius' of these Suda passages (and elsewhere) is not Saturninus Secundus Salutius, an alternative theory identified him with the Flavius Sallustius was was praetorian prefect of Gaul 361-363.
[1] Valentinian I (omicron 762); he served under Julian, amongst others, before becaming emperor himself.
[2] This unusual use of the verb διαδέχομαι is noted in LSJ s.v.
[3] That is “a person placed over”, a common title given to many officers in the later Roman Empire. In the Suda cf. under epsilon 3604 (= theta 145 = pi 793 = upsilon 169).
[4] 'Chrysaphius' in pi 1441, q.v.

Banchich, T. M. “Eunapius, Eustathius, and the Suda”, The American Journal of Philology, vol. 109, N° 2, 223-225.
Fowden, “Polytheist Religion and Philosophy”, in J.B. Bury, S.A. Cook, F.E. Adcock (eds.) The Cambridge Ancient History, London-New York, Cambridge University Press, 1926 (volume 4), 538-556.

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