A eunuch, Eutychios 4 was patricius and exarchus of Italy; he was sent to Italy after the death of Paulos 48, arriving at Naples, with orders to remove pope Gregory II (Gregorios 72) following the rejection in Italy of the imperial authority of Leo III (Leo 3) as a result of Leo's orders against images ("post aliquod vero Eutychium patricium eunuchum Neapolim imperator misit": so the early recension; the later recension adds, between the words "eunuchum" and "Neapolim", the clause "qui dudum exarchus fuerat"); an agent whom Eutychios sent to Rome with instructions for the execution of the pope and the aristocracy ("ut pontifex occideretur cum optimatibus Romae") was seized and only saved by the intervention of pope Gregorios 72; Eutychios 4 also sent envoys to the king and duces of the Lombards soliciting their support against the pope but without success: Lib. Pont. 91. 19. Later he colluded with the Lombard king Liutprand 1 to subdue the Lombard duces of Spoletium and Beneventum to the king and then to capture Rome and the pope; the attempt failed when pope Gregorios 72 confronted Liutprand 1 before Rome and induced him to withdraw: Lib. Pont. 91. 22 (styled patricius and exarchus). He was still at Rome ("exarcho Roma morante") when the rebellion of Tiberius Petasius (Tiberios 10) broke out; the pope and the exarchos cooperated over this and with the help of Pope Gregorios 72, Tiberios 10 was defeated and killed: Lib. Pont. 91. 23. He was still in office under pope Gregory III (Gregorios 7), to whom he made a gift of six twisted onyx columns, which Gregorios 7 set up in St Peter's: Lib. Pont. 92. 5 ("ab Eutychio exarcho"). He was therefore still in office in 731. He remained in office at least until 742/743 (the eleventh indiction), when he, together with the archbishop Ioannes 61 and the people of Ravenna, the Pentapolis and Aemilia wrote to pope Zacharias (Zacharias 16) to intervene for them with the Lombard king Liutprand 1 and save them from attack: Lib. Pont. 93. 12 ("Eutychius excellentissimus patricius et exarchus"). Zacharias 16 left for Ravenna and Eutychios 4 went to meet him at the church of St Christopher at Aquila, fifty miles from Ravenna: Lib. Pont. 93. 13 ("excellentissimus exarchus"). He subsequently surrendered to the Lombards under Aistulf 1; he is styled "Euthicius Romanorum patricius": Chron. Salern., p. 470. One of his seals is extant, recording his titles as patrikios, koubikoularios of the theion palation and exarchos of Italy: Laurent, Vat. 103. The name and titles read: Εὐτυχίῳ πατρικίῳ κουβικουλαρίῳ τοῦ θείου παλατίου καὶ ἐξάρχῳ Ἰταλίας. See Rochow, Konstantin V, pp. 214-215, and cf. Eutychios 2.

Unnamed exarchus of Ravenna ("exarchus, Ravennae primas"); he went to Venetia when Ioubianos 2 was magister militum there and asked the Venetici for help to recover Ravenna from the Lombards; they sent a fleet and defeated the Lombards, restoring Ravenna to the exarchos; he is also mentioned in a letter written on the same occasion while he was in Venetia by the bishop of Rome, Gregorios III (Gregorios 7), to the patriarch of Ravenna, Antoninos 2, requesting help for him to recover Ravenna and styling him "filius noster eximius domnus exarchus": John the Deacon, Cron. Ven., pp. 95-96.

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