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Headword:
Akakios
Adler number: alpha,784
Translated headword: Akakios, Acacius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An extremely eloquent rhetor in the time of Julian[1] and the sophist
Libanius.[2] He attacked Julian and found fault with his judgments, along with Tuscianus from
Phrygia, himself an eloquent rhetor.[3]
Greek Original:Akakios: rhêtôr deinotatos, epi Ioulianou kai Libaniou tou sophistou. hos epekalei ton Ioulianon kai diemempheto tas kriseis autou sun Touskianôi tôi ek Phrugias, kai autôi rhêtori onti deinôi.
Notes:
C4 AD. See generally RE Akakios(3); NP Akakios(1); PLRE I Acacius(6); O. Seeck,
Die Briefe des Libanios (Leipzig 1906) 37, 39-43 (Akakios II);
Eunapius,
Lives of the Sophists 17.1 (496).
The present material reappears under
lambda 486; see the note there.
[1] [
iota 437] Julian.
[2] [
lambda 486]
Libanius.
[3] [
tau 835] Tuscianus.
Reference:
T.M. Banchich, 'Eunapius in Athens' Phoenix 50 (1996) 304-11
Keywords: biography; chronology; historiography; history; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 7 July 1999@14:15:32.
Vetted by:Elizabeth Vandiver (Altered translated headword; made minor cosmetic changes; raised vetting status.) on 11 August 2000@15:04:55.
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 9 February 2003@09:36:16.
David Whitehead (tweaked notes) on 22 January 2012@08:57:11.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 10 December 2014@00:36:58.
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