Gordius
a charioteer, the companion of Elagabalus in his first race, and from that day forward the chosen friend of the emperor, by whom he was appointed praefectus vigilum. (Lamprid. Elagab. 6. 12; D. C. 79.15.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.