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Headword:
Agathias
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]
Agathias: scholastikos, Murinaios, ho grapsas tên meta Prokopion historian ton Kaisarea, ta kata Belisarion kai tas en Italiai kai en Libuêi praxeis, toutesti ta kata Narsên en Italiai kai ta en Lazikêi kai Buzantiôi. houtos sunetaxe kai hetera biblia emmetra te kai katalogadên, ta te kaloumena Daphniaka, kai ton Kuklon tôn neôn Epigrammatôn, hon autos sunêxen ek tôn kata kairon poiêtôn. sunêkmase de Paulôi tôi Selentiariôi kai Makedoniôi tôi hupatôi kai Tribounianôi epi tôn Ioustinianou chronôn.
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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