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Headword:
Maurikios
Adler number: mu,294
Translated headword: Maurikios, Mauricius, Maurice
Vetting Status: high
Translation: 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 West by
Tiberius Caesar.[2] This Maurice was not bred in wars and struggle, but otherwise he was rational and dignified and quite precise.[3] 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.
Greek Original: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.
Notes:
Mauricius, emperor 582-602:
De Imperatoribus Romanis entry (Wilhelm Baum) at web address 1.
[1] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 8.13.16-17.
[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. 6.2 Blockley, cf. 23.3), also cited in
epsilon 958; and see also
omicron 22.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 26 April 2009@05:42:17.
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