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Headword:
*pro/klos
Adler number: pi,2474
Translated headword: Proklos, Proclus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Quaestor of the emperor Justin,[1] a just man and plainly very incorruptible by money; for this reason he neither wrote any law easily nor was willing to abolish any of the established [laws].
Greek Original:*pro/klos, tou= basile/ws *)iousti/nou koiai/stwr, a)nh\r di/kaios kai\ xrhma/twn diafanw=s a)dwro/tatos: dio\ dh\ ou)/te no/mon tina\ eu)petw=s e)/grafen, ou)de/ ti tw=n kaqestw/twn kinei=n h)/qele.
Notes:
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 1.11.11-12 (web address 1). In 525/526 CE, Proklos (cf. PLRE II s.v. Proculus(5)) resisted drafting a law that would have allowed the Roman emperor to adopt Chosroes (cf.
chi 418), the son of Persian king Kavad (cf.
kappa 1), as proposed by Kavad himself as a precondition for a peace agreement between the two empires; cf. Kaldellis (24-25).
[1]
iota 449.
References:
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. II, (Cambridge 1980)
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; constitution; economics; ethics; historiography; history; law
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 July 2008@01:33:53.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (x-ref; more keywords; cosmetics) on 14 July 2008@03:37:12.
David Whitehead on 21 November 2011@04:59:27.
Ronald Allen (expanded primary note; added bibliography, cross-references, and link) on 21 March 2024@11:17:41.
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