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Emperor of [the] Romans. "They say about Maurice that he was generous about the magnificence of speeches, and quite brilliantly honoured those who strove in that best of the fields of study. It is also mentioned that Maurice forgave his subjects a third of all taxes."[1]
"This man was mobilised as a general over the East by Tiberius Caesar.[2] This Maurice was not bred in wars and struggle, but otherwise he was rational and dignified and quite precise. He mingled in himself both opposites: the weight of intellect, and meekness, free of any disdain and haughtiness. That Maurice was such a person was proved by his leadership over matters, once inherited — as more glorious through experience."[3]

Maurikios, ho basileus Rhômaiôn. hoti legetai peri Maurikiou philotimôs echein peri tên tôn logôn megaloprepeian timan te lian lamprôs tous enêthlêkotas peri ta kallista tôn mathêmatôn. anapheretai de kai tên tritên moiran tôn phorôn sunchôrêsai tois hupêkoois ton Maurikion. houtos de procheirizetai stratêgos tês heôias hupo Tiberiou Kaisaros. hos Maurikios en polemois men kai agôsin ouk entethrammenos, emphrôn de allôs kai embrithês kai katêkribômenos, xunkerasas te en heautôi amphô ta enantiôs echonta allêlois, onkon phronêmatos kai praotêta, pasês huperopsias te kai ophruos eleuthera. toiouton dê tina ton Maurikion onta hê tôn pragmatôn hêgemonia paralabousa anedeixe pôs eukleesteron têi peirai.

Mauricius, emperor 582-602: De Imperatoribus Romanis entry (Wilhelm Baum) at web address 1 and PLRE IIIb s.v. Mauricius(4).
[1] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 8.13.16-17; cf. de Boor (311) and Whitby (232).
[2] Not Tiberius the successor of Augustus (tau 551, tau 552) but Tiberius II (ruled 578-582: tau 553).
[3] Phrasing taken from Menander Protector (fr. 23.2 Blockley (198-201)), also cited in omicron 22. Maurice took command of the eastern Roman army in the spring of 578 (probably); cf. Blockley (282, note 274).

J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
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)
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)

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