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Headword:
*(upera/riqmoi
Adler number: upsilon,230
Translated headword: supernumeraries
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This [sc. was] the number of the so-called scholarii, who were three thousand five hundred [...] Justinian added two thousand others, whom he named thus.
Greek Original:*(upera/riqmoi: ou(=tos o( a)riqmo\s tw=n sxolari/wn kaloume/nwn trisxili/wn pentakosi/wn o)/ntwn e(te/rous disxili/ous e)nte/qeiken *)ioustiniano/s, ou(\s ou(/tws e)ka/lesen.
Note:
Procopius,
Secret History 24.15 & 19. The
scholarii were an imperial guard formed by Constantine I, replacing the Pretorian Cohort. The name (with a Latin suffix) comes from the
scholae of cadets assigned to the Palace: see
sigma 1797.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 April 2008@15:14:44.
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