Emperor of Rome (363–364). He made peace with the Persians by giving up all Roman territories beyond the Tigris River.
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(roman mythology) Of, relating to, or resembling Jupiter.
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Of, relating to, or resembling the planet Jupiter.
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Of or like Jove (the god Jupiter); majestic.
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Of the planet Jupiter.
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Of or referring to the four large, gaseous planets of the solar system, specif. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
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Alternative form of Jovian.
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Jovian Sentence Examples
The Nestorian teachers then started a great school at Nisibis (which had been under Persian rule since Jovian's humiliating treaty of 363).
As captain of the imperial bodyguard, he accompanied Julian in his Persian expedition; and on the day after that emperor's death, when the aged Sallust, prefect of the East, declined the purple, the choice of the army fell upon Jovian.
Jovian at once continued the retreat begun by Julian, and succeeded, continually harassed by the Persians, in reaching the banks of the Tigris, where a humiliating treaty was concluded with the Persian king, Shapur II.
During his return to Constantinople Jovian was found dead in his bed at Dadastana, halfway between Ancyra and Nicaea.
Under Jovian, Christianity was established as the state religion, and the Labarum of Constantine again became the standard of the army.