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Headword:
*)admisouna/lios
Adler number: alpha,494
Translated headword: admissionalis, usher
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The foremost of the silentiarii.
Greek Original:*)admisouna/lios: o( tw=n *silentiari/wn prw=tos.
Notes:
(Entry lacking, Adler reports, in mss AS, and placed earlier in GIT.)
"In the later imperial period, [a silentiarius was] a certain high officer at court, a privy-councillor" (Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary, s.v.). The Latin term admissionalis, under various hellenized spellings, occurs copiously in the De ceremoniis aulae Byzantinae of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; politics
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 23 October 1999@21:32:55.
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