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Anastasios
Adler number: alpha,2077
Translated headword: Anastasios, Anastasius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Emperor of [the] Romans. This man was inclined to baseness and all at once he turned the kingdom into an aristocracy. He sold all the magistracies and associated with wrong-doers and was inclined to an insatiable desire for money, so the provinces were emptied of their accounts; and because of this unusual and strange thing men were astounded. For he did not even ward off invading barbarians with weapons, but he achieved peace by buying them off with money. In addition to these things, he also inquired into the property of deceased men, bestowing his own deficit on everyone in common. For he took the property and after a short time distributed it to them in the guise of piety; and in the cities which he stripped of their inhabitants he rebuilt the houses, so as to arrange carefully the [income] accruing and surround it with three garlands.[1] In his reign, terrible afflictions fell upon the cities in Libya because of those called the Mazikoi. For they been put under the power of the grandson (through his daughter) of Marinos. This grandson was a young man possessed of great frivolousness. And after this man again it was his son Basianos. And he acted outrageously toward them and surpassed the licentiousness of the one who ruled before him, thus making the Libyans prefer the former state of affairs, which for some of them meant the memory of poverty and for others the memory of death. Thus, if it is permissible to speak of [this], those who were lucky enough to win favor from the bloodline of Marinos were supported by the possessions of the Libyans and the Egyptians.
Saint Theodosios, the abbot, lived during the reign of Anastasios. This Anastasios was a heretic.[2]
The emperor Anastasios himself built the long wall 60 miles from the city, extending from the sea on the north to the south for a length of 50 miles and with a width of 20 feet;[3] and he placed moles on the harbour of Julian. The same man also built the great dining hall, the one in Blachernai, which is called "Anastasian" even to this day; [4] and the Mocisian cistern.[5]
Greek Original:Anastasios, Rhômaiôn basileus. houtos epi to cheiron trapeis pasan homou tên basileian eis aristokratian metestêse, tas men archas hapasas apempolôn kai tois adikousi sunchôrôn kai pros ge chrêmatôn akoreston epithumian trapeis, hôs kenas enteuthen genesthai katalogôn tas eparchias, kai pros to aêthes kai xenon katapeplêchthai tous andras. oude gar hoplois tous epiontas barbarous êmuneto, alla chrêmasi tên eirênên exônoumenos dietelei. pros de ge toutois kai tas tôn teleutôntôn ousias epolupragmonei, koinên hapasi dôroumenos tên penian. hôn gar autos elambane tas ousias, toutois met' oligon diedidou tôi tês eusebeias tropôi: kai hôn egumnou poleôn tous enoikountas, tas oikodomas aneneou, hôs kai tên enenkamenên epimelôs kosmêsai kai trisi peribalein stephanois. epi de toutou deinai tais kata Libuên polesin epeskêpsan thlipseis hupo tôn kaloumenôn Mazikôn. ededonto gar thugatridôi Marinou es hêgemonian andri neôi kai polu to kouphon kektêmenôi: kai met' ekeinon authis Basianôi tôi paidi. ho de hois epraxe pantoiôs tas tou pro autou arxantos huperbalomenos aselgeias edôke Libusin haireisthai ta protera, kai tauta tois men penias, tois de thanatou mnêmên kataleipsanta. houtôs, ei deoi eipein, hoi te aph' haimatos tên Marinou pareutuchêsantes eunoian tois Libuôn diapherontôs kai Aiguptiôn enephorêthêsan ktêmasin. hoti epi Anastasiou tou basileôs ên ho hagios Theodosios, ho koinobiarchês. hairetikos de ên houtos ho Anastasios. hoti Anastasios autos ho basileus ektise to makron teichos pro miliôn tês poleôs x#, diateinas ek tês kata arkton thalassês eis mesêmbrian mêkos men miliôn n#, euros de podôn k#: kai tôi Ioulianou limeni probolous tithêsin. ho autos ktizei kai ton megan triklinon, ton en Blachernais, hos Anastasiakos mechri tês deuro legetai: kai tên kinsternan tên Môkisian.
Notes:
Anastasios I (reigned 491-518), a.k.a. A. Dikoros (
delta 1103), A. the Silentiary (
alpha 2078). See Hugh Elton at
De imperatoribus Romanis: web address 1.
The present entry's material is John of
Antioch frs.215-216 FHG (4.621), now = frs. 312-313 Roberto, with additional material (for which see notes 2-5 below).
[1] What this last phrase means is unclear.
[2] cf.
theta 144 (end).
[3] Again at
tau 461.
[4] Again at
tau 983.
[5] Again at
kappa 1648.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: architecture; biography; Christianity; chronology; economics; ethics; food; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; religion; science and technology; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 22 October 2000@11:42:01.
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