Historians of the social life of the later Roman Empire speak of a certain young man of
Ariminum, who would jump into rivers and swim in
Which Roman road extended from Rome to Rimini (
Ariminum)?
Servilius had an intact consular army at
Ariminum on a good road not much farther from Rome than Hannibal, and the consul would certainly have responded had the Carthaginians approached the capital.
Concerning the reasons underlying the Homoian Christian success vis-a-vis the Homoiousian church party at and particularly after the Council of
Ariminum, see Winrich Lohr, "A Sense of Tradition: The Homoiousian Church Party," in Arianism after Arius, ed.
There is irony in the description of the inhabitants' suppressed fear in response to Caesar's hunger for war when he landed at
Ariminum:
The most interesting remains formed part of a residential block on the northern edge of Roman
Ariminum, a town then facing the Adriatic coast though now a kilometer inland.
His soldiers first reach the town of
Ariminum, and their arrival startles the inhabitants:
Later this policy could have invited the question why he had become intolerant of bishops in Illyricum standing by the creed of
Ariminum (359), as other north Italian bishops such as Urbanus of Parma were.
In 359 when the Councils of
Ariminum (Rimini) and Seleucia drop all reference to the divine ousia and state only that the Son is "like" (homoios) the Father, most bishops acquiesce, owing to imperial pressure and the lack of real commitment to the Nicene formula.