[Meaning he/she/it] slandered, denounced.[1]
Aelian [writes]: "Cleander vituperated the consul of the empire in Egypt in front of Commodus and put an end to his rule though he had done nothing wrong."[2]
*)eloido/rhse: die/balen, e)sukofa/nthsen. *ai)liano/s: o( de\ *kle/andros e)loido/rhse to\n u(/paton th=s e)n *ai)gu/ptw| a)rxh=s *komo/dw| kai\ paralu/ei au)to\n th=s a)rxh=s ou)de\n a)dikou=nta.
[1] For the headword (presumably extracted from the quotation given) cf. generally
epsilon 917,
lambda 753,
lambda 754,
lambda 755.
[2]
Aelian fr. 115 Hercher (118a Domingo-Forasté). For Commodus see
kappa 2007. 'Cleander' (who does not have his own Suda entry) is M. Aurelius Cleander, a Phrygian ex-slave who before his murder in 190 CE had risen to become praetorian prefect under Commodus. In the episode referred to here, as recounted by
Cassius Dio, he is eliminating a predecessor in that office, Tigidius Perennis (
Aelian or his source is wrong to call P. the prefect of Egypt).
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