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Headword:
*basili/skos
Adler number: beta,163
Translated headword: Basiliskos, Basiliscus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Brother of the empress Verina.[1] During the reign of Leo[2] he was chosen over Rusticius[3] the praefectus castrorum, as he [Basiliskos] was successful in battle, but slow-witted and easily led astray by tricksters.
Greek Original:*basili/skos, *bhri/nhs a)delfo\s th=s basili/dos, e)pi\ *le/ontos tou= basile/ws a)nti\ *(roustiki/ou stratopeda/rxou h(|re/qh, eu)epi/teuktos me\n w)\n e)n ma/xais, bradu/nous de\ kai\ fenaki/zousin u(pago/menos r(a|di/ws.
Notes:
Malchus fr. 7 FHG (4.116), still 7 Cresci. This fragment is also
Priscus fr. 43 Blockley and
Priscus fr. 76 Carolla. See also
beta 164 (and
epsilon 2494). Blockley indicates (350-351) that this fragment is not conclusively Priscan; cf. Blockley (ix). Carolla includes it (104) in the note to fr. 76, which is itself among fragments which she attributes dubiously to
Priscus. Only the last part of the fragment, beginning with
h(|re/qh, Carolla deems (ibid.) to be plausibly taken from
Priscus; cf. Carolla (xxxii-xxxiii).
[1] Verina (
beta 263) was the wife of Leo I (see next note), making Basiliskos his brother-in-law.
[2] Leo I, emperor 457-474; cf.
lambda 267 and PLRE II s.v. Leo(6).
[3] Rusticius was
magister ultriusque militiae in Thrace until the appointment of Basiliskos (ca. 464); cf. PLRE II s.v. Rusticius(5).
References:
R.C. Blockley, The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus, vol. II, (Liverpool 1983)
P. Carolla, ed., Priscus Panita: Excerpta et Fragmenta, (Berlin 2008)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. II, (Cambridge 1980)
Keywords: biography; chronology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; women
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 6 June 2002@10:17:51.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 7 June 2002@04:55:30.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; another x-ref; more keywords) on 29 October 2006@04:43:20.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 23 May 2012@07:10:39.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 31 January 2015@08:11:32.
Ronald Allen (augmented primary note) on 28 February 2026@18:50:28.
Ronald Allen (expanded primary note, added bibliography) on 1 March 2026@19:10:05.
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