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Headword: Ἰάκωβος
Adler number: iota,14
Translated headword: Jacob, Jacobus, Iakobos
Vetting Status: low
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.
Greek Original:
Ἰάκωβος: οὗτος πιὼν φάρμακον ἐπὶ Οὐάλεντος ἐτελεύτησεν. ἦν δὲ ὁ συμβουλεύσας αὐτῷ πιεῖν τὸ φάρμακον Λιβάνιος σοφιστής, διὰ τὸ ἐπιζητῆσαι, τίς ὁ διαδεξόμενος τὴν βασιλείαν Οὐάλεντος.
Notes:
Source: Eunapius fr.39.2 Blockley.
[1] PLRE I Jacobus(2).
[2] Lambda 486: Libanius.
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.
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