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Headword:
*sxola/rioi
Adler number: sigma,1797
Translated headword: scholarii
Vetting Status: high
Translation: 503 [scholarii] were assigned as a guard for the Palace, having been chosen according to merit from the Armenians, to whom the public treasury used from early on to provide higher pay than to all the others.
Greek Original:*sxola/rioi #22gf# e)pi\ fulakh=| tou= *palati/ou h)=san tetagme/noi, a)risti/ndhn a)polexqe/ntes e)c *)armeni/wn, oi(=s sunta/ceis a)ne/kaqen plei/ous h)\ toi=s a)/llois a(/pasi to\ dhmo/sion e)xorh/gei.
Notes:
Procopius,
Secret History 24.15-16 (web address 1; cf. Kaldellis (107)); cf.
upsilon 230, where the correct number appears, namely 3500.
The
scholarii were an imperial guard formed by Constantine I replacing the Pretorian Cohort; the name (with a Latin suffix) comes from the
scholae of cadets assigned to the Palace. For the rare adverb
a)risti/ndhn, cf.
alpha 409 and
alpha 3906.
Reference:
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 April 2008@15:24:48.
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