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Headword: *)ia/kwbos
Adler number: iota,14
Translated headword: Iakobos, Jacobus, Jacob
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

This man[1] drank poison and died under Valens. The person who advised him to drink the poison was Libanius the sophist,[2] because he had tried to find out who would succeed Valens as emperor.[3]

Greek Original:

*)ia/kwbos: ou(=tos piw\n fa/rmakon e)pi\ *ou)a/lentos e)teleu/thsen. h)=n de\ o( sumbouleu/sas au)tw=| piei=n to\ fa/rmakon *liba/nios sofisth/s, dia\ to\ e)pizhth=sai, ti/s o( diadeco/menos th\n basilei/an *ou)a/lentos.

Notes:

Source: Blockley, Eunapius fr.39.[2].
[1] PLRE I Jacobus(2).
[2] lambda 486: Libanius.
[3] For the idiom cf. (e.g.) Polybius 2.4.7 (th\n basilei/an diadecame/nh).

Reference:

Blockley, R.C. The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus. Vol. II. Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983

Keywords: biography; chronology; historiography; history; medicine; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 4 March 2001@11:37:30.
Vetted by:

Catharine Roth (cosmetic) on 5 September 2001@22:55:23.
David Whitehead (added keywords) on 13 September 2002@06:45:57.
David Whitehead on 8 January 2013@04:21:34.
Aaron Baker (Modified Blockley cite. Added Polybius cite.) on 28 March 2015@16:50:24.
Catharine Roth (typo) on 29 March 2015@00:03:46.
David Whitehead (expanded a note) on 26 April 2016@03:41:47.

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