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Headword:
*)ardabou/rios
Adler number: alpha,3803
Translated headword: Ardabourios, Ardaburius, Ardabur
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The son of Aspar; noble in spirit, [he who] often strongly repulsed the barbarians overrunning Thrace. To him therefore, as rewards for excellence, the Emperor
Marcianus[1] offered command of the eastern infantry army. But after accepting this [position] in peacetime he turned to relaxation and effeminate luxuriance. For he used to rejoice in mimes and charlatans and all theatrical pastimes,[2] and passing his days in such shameful things he paid no regard whatsoever to those things which tended toward good repute. And after the emperor
Marcianus had become "good", but had soon died, Aspar of his own will prepared Leon to be his successor.[3]
Greek Original:*)ardabou/rios, ui(o\s *)/asparos, gennai=os to\n qumo\n kai\ tou\s th\n *qra/|khn polla/kis katadramo/ntas barba/rous eu)rw/stws a)pokrousa/menos. tou/tw| ou)=n ge/ra a)risteiw=n o( basileu\s *markiano\s pare/sxeto th\n e(/w stratopedarxi/an. katalabw\n de\ e)n ei)rh/nh| tau/thn o( strathgo\s pro\s a)/nesin e)tra/ph kai\ r(a|stw/nhn qhludriw=tin. e)/xaire ga\r mi/mois kai\ qaumatopoioi=s kai\ pa=si skhnikoi=s a)qu/rmasi, kai\ toi=s toiou/tois dihmereu/wn ai)sxroi=s h)lo/gei pa/mpan tw=n pro\s eu)/kleian teino/ntwn. *markianou= de\ tou= basile/ws xrhstou= me\n gegono/tos, qa=tton de\ e)kbebiwko/tos, au)tokeleu/stw| gnw/mh| *)/aspar *le/onta dia/doxon au)tou= gene/sqai pareskeu/asen.
Notes:
See already
alpha 707, and again under
alpha 4201 (below),
zeta 29 and
sigma 180. The present material, with its odd echoes (see n.2 below), has been attributed to
Menander Protector (fr.20 FHG) and, more plausibly,
Priscus (fr. 59 Bornmann).
[1] On Marcian, see the
De Imperatoribus Romanis entry by Geoffrey Nathan at web address 1.
[2] This phrase echoes what
Diodorus Siculus wrote of
Antiochus Cyzicenus. See
pi 2362.
[3] On Leo I, see the
De Imperatoribus Romanis entry by Hugh Elton at web address 2. This sentence appears also at
alpha 4201.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 October 2001@13:13:15.
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