[Meaning he/she/it] slandered, denounced.[1]
Aelian [writes]: "Cleander vituperated the consul of the empire in Egypt in front of Commodus and put an end to his rule though he had done nothing wrong."[2]
Eloidorêse: diebalen, esukophantêsen. Ailianos: ho de Kleandros eloidorêse ton hupaton tês en Aiguptôi archês Komodôi kai paraluei auton tês archês ouden adikounta.
[1] For the headword (presumably extracted from the quotation given) cf. generally
epsilon 917,
lambda 753,
lambda 754,
lambda 755.
[2]
Aelian fr. 115 Hercher (118a Domingo-Forasté). For Commodus see
kappa 2007. 'Cleander' (who does not have his own Suda entry) is M. Aurelius Cleander, a Phrygian ex-slave who before his murder in 190 CE had risen to become praetorian prefect under Commodus. In the episode referred to here, as recounted by
Cassius Dio, he is eliminating a predecessor in that office, Tigidius Perennis (
Aelian or his source is wrong to call P. the prefect of Egypt).
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