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Headword:
*fh=stos
Adler number: phi,279
Translated headword: Festus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man around the time of Valens[1] is sent out into Asia as proconsul. He had been entrusted with the imperial [treasure] chest.[2] But he is sent nonetheless, to demonstrate that the poetical and legendary Echetus, and any other such [tyrant] from
Sicily or Thessaly, were gold and a festival.[3] His madness was not external, but inside he was raving and raging, a man wicked by nature possessing power[4], and who had left ferocity in punishments well-esteemed in the palace; he omitted no kind of illegality and licentiousness, but rushed into such an extreme of derangement and slaughters that he even killed
Maximus with a sword,[5] and slew Koiranos the Egyptian on top of him. And while he was still hot and seething with gore, he kept on killing them all together and burning them up.
*fh=stos: ou(=tos peri\ tou\s xro/nous *ou)a/lentos ei)s th\n *)asi/an e)kpe/mpetai a)nqu/patos, th\n de\ basilikh\n glw=ssan e)pepi/steuto. pe/mpetai de\ o(/mws, to\n poihtiko\n kai\ muqw/dh *)/exeton, kai\ ei) dh/ tis a)/llos e)k *sikeli/as h)\ *qettali/as toiou=tos, xruso\n a)podei/cwn kai\ panh/gurin. h)=n de\ h( mani/a ou) qu/raqen, a)ll' e)/ndoqen e)lu/ssa kai\ e)mai/neto, a)nh\r fu/sei ponhro\s kai\ e)cousi/an e)/xwn kai\ th\n e)n tai=s kola/sesin a)grio/thta katalipw\n eu)dokimou=san e)n toi=s basilei/ois, ou)k e)/stin o(/ ti paranomi/as a)pe/leipe kai\ a)selgei/as. a)ll' e)pi\ toso/nde parafora=s e)r- ru/h kai\ fo/nwn, w(/ste kai\ *ma/cimon ci/fei die/fqeire, *koi/ranon *ai)gu/ption e)pisfa/cas au)tw=|. kai\ e)/ti qermo\s w)\n kai\ ze/wn tw=| lu/qrw| pa/ntas sunanh/|rei kai\ kate/flege.
Notes:
= [
Eunapius] fr.39 FHG (4.29); Blockley,
Eunapius fr. 39.[8]. See generally OCD(4) s.v. on this man: 'historian and senator from Tridentum, [...]
magister memoriae under Valens (c. AD 369) and proconsul of Asia (372-8), when he won notoriety for his execution of the Neoplatonist
Maximus and persecution of intellectuals generally. He wrote the extant
Summary of Roman History (
Breviarium rerum gestarum populi Romani) from the origins to the accession of Valens, to whom it was dedicated'.
[1] See
omicron 764.
[2] See
gamma 301.
[3] See
epsilon 3996. In other words, the time of Echetus and other tyrants was a golden age, compared to that of
Festus. Cf.
kappa 391 (= Blockley,
Eunapius fr. 5.1), on the crimes of Carinus.
[4] See
theta 599.
[5] See
mu 174,
sigma 445,
upsilon 175.
Blockley, R.C. The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus. Vol. II. Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983.
Keywords: biography; chronology; constitution; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; law; mythology; philosophy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 November 2011@01:03:06.
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