Olybrius (consul 526)
Flavius Olybrius iunior was a Roman politician. He was appointed consul for the year 526, which he held without a colleague.Biography
Olybrius comes probably from the family of Anicii. Following his tenure as consul, which was recognised both in the East and in the West, he held the rank of patricius.
On 17 December 546 Olybrius was in Rome when the Ostrogothic King Totila captured the city. Olybrius, Anicius Maximus, Rufius Gennadius Probus Orestes and other patricii sought refuge in Old St. Peter's Basilica. Captured and sent to Campania, he was still there when Narses conquered Rome in 552; the senators were preparing to return to Rome, but the Goths who guarded them, enraged by the death of Totila, killed them all.
