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Headword:
Aurêlianos
Adler number: alpha,4458
Translated headword: Aurelian, Aurelianus, Aurelianos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Emperor of the Romans, a man who had awesome skill in the arts of war, but being undisciplined in his thinking and inclining markedly toward savagery, he submitted many of the notables in the city to the death penalty for being disgraced by Zenobia.[1] He was by nature stubborn and murderous, and more a forcible general than an elected emperor, and, being harsh and unapproachable in every situation, he did not remain clean even of the blood of his own family: for he did away with the wife of his son without due process. But of the discipline of the soldiers and their vanishing and corrupt morals he was overall a genuine restorer.
See the oracle about him under "If he should suffer".[2]
Greek Original:Aurêlianos, basileus Rhômaiôn, ta polemia deinôs êskêmenos, akathektos de peri tên gnômên kai polu pros ômotêta rhepôn tôn te kata polin episêmôn thanatôi pollous ezêmiôsen hupo Zênobias elenchthentas, chalepos tis kai phonikos huparchôn kai mallon anankaios stratêgos êper hairetos basileus, en panti de kairôi duscherês kai aprositos, hôs mêde tôn oikeiôn haimatos diameinai katharos: tên gar tou paidos gametên kai anenklêton diechrêsato. tou de tôn stratiôtôn tagmatos kai tôn exitêlôn kai dialelumenôn êthôn hôs epipan gennaios ên epanorthôtês. zêtei peri autou chrêsmon en tôi ai ke pathoi.
Notes:
Lucius Domitius Aurelianus, emperor 270-275;
De Imperatoribus Romanis entry by Christian Körner at web address 1. The Suda's material here is John of
Antioch fr. 155 FHG (4.599), now 235 Roberto; cf. Eutropius,
Breviarium 9.13. See also
alphaiota 291.
[1] cf.
epsilon 281,
lambda 645.
[2]
alphaiota 165 (
ai)/ ke pa/qoi).
Reference:
OCD(4) pp.209-10, s.v. Aurelian
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; law; military affairs; poetry; proverbs; religion; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 2 April 2002@08:54:48.
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