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Headword:
*tima/sios
Adler number: tau,597
Translated headword: Timasios, Timasius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man was [sc. alive] in the time of the Emperor
Theodosius;[1] wanting to assign him to [sc. imperial] duties, Eutropius[2] summoned him away out of Asia to the imperial court.[3] Being a haughty man and arrogant and habituated to military campaigns and regarding the principal good in human affairs [to be] honor and fame and overflowing wealth, and to possess for himself with impunity anything he might wish to appropriate, and through strong drink not to know [sc. the difference between] night and day, nor to observe the rising and setting sun -- having reckoned the summons of heaven to be the same [sc. in both cases]; having torn himself away from his ineffectual [activities] frittered away in negligence and having strained his spirit for love of fame, he struck out resolutely from
Pamphylia[4] and was turning back towards
Lydia,[5] indeed as if [sc. he were] someone ruling absolutely or someone who was going to regard the emperor and the eunuch[6] as incidental child's play, if he wished.[7]
*tima/sios: ou(=tos e)pi\ *qeodosi/ou tou= basile/ws h)=n: o(\n o( *eu)tro/pios e)pisth=sai toi=s pra/gmasi boulo/menos e)k th=s *)asi/as metakalei= pro\s ta\ basi/leia: o( de\ gau=ro/s te a)nh\r w)\n kai\ a)ge/rwxos kai\ stratei/ais w(milhkw\s kai\ tou=to prw=ton a)gaqo\n h(gou/menos tw=n e)n a)nqrw/pois, timh\n kai\ do/can kai\ plou=ton e)piklu/zonta kai\ to\ e)/xein e(autw=| o(/ ti bou/loito kexrh=sqai kai\ a)dew=s, dia/ te me/qhn nu/kta kai\ h(me/ran ou)k ei)de/nai ou)/te a)nate/llonta kai\ duo/menon kaqora=n h(/lion, i)/sa kai\ ou)ranou= ei)=nai nomi/sas th\n meta/klhsin, e)k tw=n a)lu/pwn kai\ diakexume/nwn pro\s o)ligwri/an diatribw=n a)porrh/cas e(auto\n kai\ katatei/nas th\n yuxh\n ei)s filodoci/an, baru\s a)nasta\s e)k *pamfuli/as e)pi\ *ludi/an a)ne/strefen, w(s a)\n dh/ tis basileu/wn, h)\ to/n ge basile/a kai\ to\n eu)nou=xon kata\ pa/rergo/n ti paidia\n qhso/menos, ei) bou/loito.
Notes:
Under the Emperor
Theodosius [n. below1], Timasius was a general and then consul beginning in 389 CE (Smith, p. 1136; PLRE, p. 914;
gamma 78; and
pi 855).
[1]
Theodosius I (The Great) (346-395) (OCD(4) s.v.
Theodosius(2) and
theta 144).
[2] Eutropius (
epsilon 3776,
epsilon 3777, and OCD(4) s.v. Eutropius(2)) was minister (395-399) under
Arcadius [n. 3 below] and in 396 summoned Timasius to Constantinople (cf.
gamma 78) from
Pamphylia [n. 4 below].
[3] The court is that of Emperor
Arcadius, who succeeeded
Theodosius and ruled in the east 383-408; OCD(4) s.v.
Arcadius(2).
[4]
Pamphylia (OCD(4) s.v.) is a territory in southern Asia Minor (present-day Turkey).
[5]
Lydia (OCD(4) s.v.) is a region in western Asia Minor (present-day Turkey); cf.
lambda 783.
[6]
Arcadius and Eutropius, respectively [nn. 2-3 above].
[7]
Eunapius fr.70 FHG (4.44-5); Blockley, pp. 96-7. Adler reports that this passage follows ms A, whereas
pi 855 renders it
paidia/n tina qhso/menos (
assuming some kind of child's play).
W. Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1867
A.H.M. Jones, J.R. Martindale, and J. Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. I, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992
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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Translated by: Ronald Allen on 10 June 2008@00:53:00.
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