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Headword: Petros
Adler number: pi,1406
Translated headword: Peter, Petros
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
the rhetor; also magister and historian. Sent as an ambassador to Chosroes, his rhetoric was cogent and irrefutable, because of his ability to mollify the inflexible and grandiose attitudes of the barbarians.[1] He wrote a history, and On Political Constitution.
Greek Original:
Petros, ho rhêtôr, ho kai magistros kai historikos, presbeutês hôs Chosroên staleis mala embrithês te ên kai analôtos en tôi rhêtoreuein, tôi katamalaxai phronêmata barbarika sklêra te kai onkôdê. egrapsen historian kai peri politikês katastaseôs.
Notes:
RE Petros(6); PLRE Petrus(6).
[1] Source: Menander Protector fr.6.2 Blockley; cf. epsilon 958. See the account of this embassy in Blockley (1985) 55-91.
Reference:
R. Blockley, The History of Menander the Guardsman (Liverpool 1985).
Keywords: biography; constitution; ethics; geography; historiography; history; philosophy; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 5 September 2003@14:56:57.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (cosmetics, added keywords, set status) on 5 September 2003@15:34:35.
David Whitehead (rearranged notes) on 6 September 2003@04:33:48.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 18 November 2005@09:57:10.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, cross-reference) on 21 February 2007@00:19:52.
David Whitehead (more keywords; raised status) on 1 October 2013@05:40:25.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 12 September 2024@00:39:30.
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