id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2393 Constans - Wikipedia .html text/html 3066 383 63 Constans was probably born in 320.[1] He was the third and youngest son of Constantine the Great and Fausta, his father's second wife.[4] He was the grandson of both the augusti Constantius I and Maximian.[1] When he was born his father Constantine was the empire's senior augustus, and at war with his colleague and brother-in-law Licinius I (r. 244–249).[5] Philip may also have raised his son to co-augustus at the start of the anniversary year.[5] Rome had been calculated by the 1st-century BC Latin author Marcus Terentius Varro to have been founded by Romulus in 753 BC.[5] Byzantium was thought to have been founded in 667 BC by Byzas, according to the reckoning derived from the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, the 5th-century BC Greek historian and used by Constantine's court historian Eusebius of Caesarea in his Chronicon.[5] Constantine III with son Constans II ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2393.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2393.txt