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The general of Mysia, the [region] stretched along the river Danube;[1] a man who came to the height of intelligence and extremely good at matters both political and military. He lived in the time of Justinian.

*bw=nos, strathgo\s th=s *musi/as, th=s para\ tw=| *)/istrw| potamw=| paratetame/nhs, a)nh\r sune/sews e)s a)/kron h(/kwn kai\ li/an a)gaqo\s ta/ te politika\ kai\ pole/mia. h)=n e)pi\ *)ioustinianou=.

Agathias, Histories 1.19. Bonus was in fact quaestor (cf. kappa 2533) of Moesia, but had been entrusted with a sizeable military force by the Byzantine general Narses (cf. nu 42) for securing the environs of Luca (modern-day Lucca, in Tuscany, Italy; cf. alpha 457) in 553 CE; cf. Frendo (27) and PLRE IIIa s.v. Bonus(1).
[1] In other words, Moesia (to be distinguished from Mysia in Asia Minor: mu 1472, etc.), Barrington Atlas map 100 grids L3-M3. The two place-names are homophonous in Byzantine pronunciation; and see further under delta 23.

J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)

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