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Headword:
*patri/kios
Adler number: pi,793
Translated headword: patrician
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] father of the commonwealth.[1]
"He sent as envoys those who had served worthily in the leadership of the senate. And in fact they happened to be patricians."[2]
"The emperor
Theodosius the Lesser, because of his anger against
Antiochus the provost who had been accused of high treason, issued an edict that a eunuch could not be numbered among the patricians. Accordingly the provost was stripped of his office and made public property and assigned to the priests."[3]
*patri/kios: path\r tou= koinou=. o( de\ pe/mpei presbeuta\s tou\s e)n th=| korufai/w| th=s sugklh/tou boulh=s telou=ntas a)/cia. patri/kioi d' a)/ra o)/ntes e)tu/gxanon. o( basileu\s *qeodo/sios o( mikro\s o)rgh=| th=| pro\s *)anti/oxon to\n praipo/siton, diablhqe/nta ei)s kaqosi/wsin e)cefw/nhse dia/tacin, eu)nou=xon e)n toi=s patriki/ois mh\ telei=n. dio\ kai\ kaqh|re/qh o( praipo/sitos th=s timh=s kai\ e)dhmosieu/qh kai\ toi=s i(ereu=si kateta/gh.
Notes:
For the headword as a proper name see
pi 792
[1] For this (Greek) etymology for the Latin term 'patrician' (
patricius), see also
Etymologicum Gudianum 455.34;
Etymologicum Magnum 656.25.
[2] An abridged and slightly inaccurate quotation of Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 3.15.6; cf.
kappa 94. The subject of the sentence is the emperor
Tiberius II (578-582):
tau 553.
Tiberius was Caesar when he initiated negotiations with the Persians in the winter of 576; cf. de Boor (141) and Whitby (96).
[3]
Priscus fr.52 Bornmann; cf. frs.54-55, and (elsewhere in the Suda)
epsilon 3604,
theta 145 (
Theodosius),
upsilon 169, and
alpha 2694. The "provost" in question was the
praepositus of the imperial bedchamber. See Greatrex and Bardill 1996.
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Greatrex, G. and J. Bardill (1996) "Antiochus the Praepositus: a Persian Eunuch at the Court of Theodosius II." Dumbarton Oaks Papers 50: 171-197
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Translated by: William Hutton on 1 September 2011@12:16:54.
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