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Headword:
Patrikios
Adler number: pi,793
Translated headword: patrician
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] father of the commonwealth.[1]
"He sent as envoys those who had served worthily in the leadership of the senate. And in fact they happened to be patricians."[2]
"The emperor
Theodosius the Lesser, because of his anger against
Antiochus the provost who had been accused of high treason, issued an edict that a eunuch could not be numbered among the patricians. Accordingly the provost was stripped of his office and made public property and assigned to the priests."[3]
Patrikios: patêr tou koinou. ho de pempei presbeutas tous en têi koruphaiôi tês sunklêtou boulês telountas axia. patrikioi d' ara ontes etunchanon. ho basileus Theodosios ho mikros orgêi têi pros Antiochon ton praipositon, diablêthenta eis kathosiôsin exephônêse diataxin, eunouchon en tois patrikiois mê telein. dio kai kathêirethê ho praipositos tês timês kai edêmosieuthê kai tois hiereusi katetagê.
Notes:
For the headword as a proper name see
pi 792
[1] For this (Greek) etymology for the Latin term 'patrician' (
patricius), see also
Etymologicum Gudianum 455.34;
Etymologicum Magnum 656.25.
[2] An abridged and slightly inaccurate quotation of Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 3.15.6; cf.
kappa 94. The subject of the sentence is the emperor
Tiberius II (578-582):
tau 553.
[3]
Priscus fr.52 Bornmann; cf. frs.54-55, and (elsewhere in the Suda)
epsilon 3604,
theta 145 (
Theodosius),
upsilon 169, and
alpha 2694. The "provost" in question was the
praepositus of the imperial bedchamber. See Greatrex and Bardill 1996.
Greatrex, G. and J. Bardill (1996) "Antiochus the Praepositus: a Persian Eunuch at the Court of Theodosius II." Dumbarton Oaks Papers 50: 171-197
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Translated by: William Hutton on 1 September 2011@12:16:54.
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