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Headword:
Ἀγαθίας
Adler number: alpha,112
Translated headword: Agathias
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A lawyer,[1] of
Myrina;[2] the one who wrote the
History as a continuation of
Procopius of
Caesarea,[3] [comprising] the affairs involving Belisarius[4] and the events in Italy and Libya; that is the affairs involving Narses[5] in Italy and the events in Lazike[6] and
Byzantion. He also composed other books, both in meter and in prose, including the
Daphniaka[7] and the
Cycle of New Epigrams, which he compiled himself from the poets of his day. He was a contemporary of Paulus Silentiarius and of the consul Macedonius and of Tribonian[8] in the time of Justinian.[9]
Ἀγαθίας: σχολαστικὸς, Μυριναῖος, ὁ γράψας τὴν μετὰ Προκόπιον ἱστορίαν τὸν Καισαρέα, τὰ κατὰ Βελισάριον καὶ τὰς ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ καὶ ἐν Λιβύῃ πράξεις, τουτέστι τὰ κατὰ Ναρσῆν ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ καὶ τὰ ἐν Λαζικῇ καὶ Βυζαντίῳ. οὗτος συνέταξε καὶ ἕτερα βιβλία ἔμμετρά τε καὶ καταλογάδην, τά τε καλούμενα Δαφνιακά, καὶ τὸν Κύκλον τῶν νέων Ἐπιγραμμάτων, ὃν αὐτὸς συνῆξεν ἐκ τῶν κατὰ καιρὸν ποιητῶν. συνήκμασε δὲ Παύλῳ τῷ Σελεντιαρίῳ καὶ Μακεδονίῳ τῷ ὑπάτῳ καὶ Τριβουνιανῷ ἐπὶ τῶν Ἰουστινιανοῦ χρόνων.
Notes:
c.532-c.580. See generally Averil Cameron in OCD(3) 36.
[1] See OCD s.v.
[2] a.k.a. Sebastopolis, in Aeolis (Asia Minor): Barrington
Atlas map 56 grid D4.
[3] For
Procopius see
pi 2479. A's own work was in turn continued by
Menander Protector (
mu 591).
[4] See
beta 233.
[5] See
nu 42.
[6] An alternative name for Colchis (
kappa 1979); present-day Georgia, between the Black and Caspian Seas.
[7] Amatory hexameters.
[8]
tau 956, cf.
tau 951.
[9]
iota 446.
Translated by: William Hutton on 30 March 2001@15:08:59.
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