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Headword:
*)agaqi/as
Adler number: alpha,112
Translated headword: Agathias
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A lawyer,[1] of
Myrina;[2] the one who wrote the
History as a continuation of
Procopius of
Caesarea,[3] [comprising] the affairs involving Belisarius[4] and the events in Italy and Libya; that is the affairs involving Narses[5] in Italy and the events in Lazike[6] and
Byzantion. He also composed other books, both in meter and in prose, including the
Daphniaka[7] and the
Cycle of New Epigrams, which he compiled himself from the poets of his day. He was a contemporary of Paul the Silentiary and of the consul Macedonius and of Tribonian[8] in the time of Justinian.[9]
*)agaqi/as: sxolastiko\s, *murinai=os, o( gra/yas th\n meta\ *proko/pion i(stori/an to\n *kaisare/a, ta\ kata\ *belisa/rion kai\ ta\s e)n *)itali/a| kai\ e)n *libu/h| pra/ceis, toute/sti ta\ kata\ *narsh=n e)n *)itali/a| kai\ ta\ e)n *lazikh=| kai\ *buzanti/w|. ou(=tos sune/tace kai\ e(/tera bibli/a e)/mmetra/ te kai\ kataloga/dhn, ta/ te kalou/mena *dafniaka/, kai\ to\n *ku/klon tw=n ne/wn *)epigramma/twn, o(\n au)to\s sunh=cen e)k tw=n kata\ kairo\n poihtw=n. sunh/kmase de\ *pau/lw| tw=| *selentiari/w| kai\ *makedoni/w| tw=| u(pa/tw| kai\ *tribounianw=| e)pi\ tw=n *)ioustinianou= xro/nwn.
Notes:
c.532-c.580. See generally Averil Cameron in OCD(4) s.v. (p.35).
[1] See OCD s.v.
[2] a.k.a. Sebastopolis, in Aeolis (Asia Minor): Barrington Atlas map 56 grid D4.
[3] For
Procopius see
pi 2479. A's own work was in turn continued by
Menander Protector (
mu 591).
[4] See
beta 233.
[5] See
nu 42.
[6] An alternative name for Colchis (
kappa 1979); present-day Georgia, between the Black and Caspian Seas.
[7] Amatory hexameters.
[8]
tau 956, cf.
tau 951.
[9]
iota 446.
Translated by: William Hutton on 30 March 2001@15:08:59.
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