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"This man was a general of the East,[1] who, [though] abounding in virtue was sickly in the body, [but] full of a healthy spirit. At any rate, with his body already weakened and unglued into dissolution, he was nailing together and interweaving [it][2] into some constitution and harmony, in order that it might satisfy his excellence. [It was he] who easily annihilated the brigands,[3] so that the word 'brigandage' almost faded from the memory of men. In religious worship he was a Hellene."[4]

*fra/biqos: ou(=tos strathgo\s h)=n th=s a)natolh=s, o(\s a)kma/zwn th\n a)reth\n e)no/sei to\ sw=ma, th=s yuxh=s u(giainou/shs ple/on. kai\ to/ ge sw=ma dialuo/menon h)/dh kai\ a)pokollw/menon ei)s th\n lu/sin sunego/mfou kai\ die/pleken ei)s ph=ci/n tina kai\ a(rmoni/an, o(/pws a)\n a)rke/seie tw=| kalw=|. o(\s tou\s lh|sta\s r(a|di/ws sunei=len, w(/ste mikrou= kai\ to\ o)/noma th=s lh|stei/as e)k th=s mnei/as tw=n a)nqrw/pwn e)kpesei=n. h)=n de\ *(/ellhn th\n qrhskei/an.

The headword does not occur in the passage as quoted, from Eunapius (see n. 4 below), but no doubt surrounds the attribution.
Flavius Fravitta (d. 401 CE) was the leader of a Gothic faction, one of a few loyal to the emperor Theodosius I (The Great) (346-395; OCD(4) s.v. Theodosius(2) and theta 144), appointed magister militum per Orientum by Arcadius (emperor in the east 383-408; OCD(4) s.v. Arcadius(2)) in 395, and consul from 401; see Heather, pp. 186-90; PLRE, pp. 372-3; Mitchell, p. 96; and n.2. He was assassinated in 401.
[1] In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms F lacks the rest of the quotation.
[2] For 'nailing together' cf. sigma 1475. In context here, both of these imperfects may be conative, i.e. 'sought to ...'.
[3] Probably referring to Fravitta's suppression (in 400) of bandits from Cilicia (a coastal region of southern Asia Minor: Barrington Atlas map 66 grid D4; cf. kappa 1605, kappa 1606, kappa 1607, kappa 1608) east and south through Phoenicia (Barrington Atlas map 69 grid C2) and Palestine (Barrington Atlas map 70 grid F3, cf. pi 66); cf. Zosimus 5.20.1; Burns, p. 345. Adler notes that Kuster substituted a)nei=len (destroyed; aorist indicative active, third person singular form of a)naire/w, I take up, destroy; see generally LSJ s.v.) for sunei=len (annihilated), which is less common.
[4] That is, he was a pagan. Eunapius fr. 80 FHG (4.49); cf. Blockley, pp. 108-9 and sigma 1475. [Adler reports that, instead of mnei/as (memory, genitive singular of mnei/a) printed by her from ms A, mss GVM read mnh/mhs (remembrance).]

P.J. Heather, Goths and Romans: 332-489, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991
A.H.M. Jones, J.R. Martindale, and J. Morris The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. I, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971
S. Mitchell, A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641: The Transformation of the Ancient World, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007
T.S. Burns, Barbarians Within the Gates of Rome: A Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, ca. 375-425 A.D., Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995
R.C. Blockley, The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus, vol. II, Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983

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