Paulus Catena
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Paulus Catena ('the Chain' or 'the Fetter';[note 1] fl. 350s; d. 361/2[note 2]) was a senior Roman public official who served as an investigator and notary for Constantius II during the mid-fourth century.[3][4] He is principally known through the writings of Ammianus Marcellinus, though he is also present in the works of Libanius and Julian the Apostate. Marcellinus describes him as infamously cruel, and a skilled fabricator of false accusations.[6]