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Headword:
*(ila/rios
Adler number: iota,292
Translated headword: Hilarios, Hilarius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The one from
Phrygia,[1] in the reign of Jovian the emperor of the Romans.[2] In education he was not a notable man, but a god saw fit to share with him the [knowledge][3] of the future, so that he was an excellent prophet.
*(ila/rios, o( e)k *frugi/as, e)pi\ *)iobianou= basile/ws *(rwmai/wn. kata\ paidei/an me\n h)=n a)nh\r ou) gnw/rimos, koinwnei=n de\ au)tw=| qeo\s e)do/kei th=s koinwni/as tou= me/llontos, w(/ste h)=n ma/ntis a)/ristos.
Notes:
Eunapius fr. 40 FGH (4.30b); Blockley,
Eunapius fr. 39.[4].
[1] This distinguishes him from
iota 291.
[2] On the emperor Jovian, see
iota 401.
[3] Adler follows the first edition of the Suda in suggesting that
koinwni/as should be replaced by a noun meaning "knowledge" or "foresight".
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; ethics; geography; historiography; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 April 2006@17:55:01.
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