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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ellion. John the Scythian, John the Hunchbacked, and under them Justinus, who became afterwards emperor, distinguished themselves greatly as commanders of the armies of Anastasius. The following years were signalized by a sedition in Constantinople occasioned by disturbances between the factions of the Blue and the Green, by religious troubles which the emperor was able to quell only by his own humiliation, by wars with the Arabs and the Bulgarians, and by earthquakes, famine, and plague. (A. D. 500.) Anastasius tried to relieve his people by abolishing the xrusa/rguros, a heavy poll-tax which was paid indifferently for men and for domestic animals. Immediately after these calamities, Anastasius was involved in a war with Cabadis, the king of Persia, who destroyed the Byzantine army commanded by Hypacius and Patricius Phrygius, and ravaged Mesopotamia in a dreadful manner. Anastasius purchased peace in 505 by paying 11,000 pounds of gold to the Persians, who, being threatened with an
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ascle'pius (search)
Ascle'pius 3. Of Tralles, a Peripatetic philosopher and a disciple of Ammonius, the son of Hermias. He lived about A. D. 500. Works Commentaries on Aristotle's Metaphysics and on the a)riqmhtikh/ of Nicomachus of Gerasa Asclepius wrote commentaries on the first six or seven books of Aristotle's Metaphysics and on the a)riqmhtikh/ of Nicomachus of Gerasa. Editions These commentaries are still extant in MS., but only a portion of them has yet been printed in Brandis, Scholia Graeca in Aristot. Metaphys. p. 518, &c. Further Information Comp. Fabr. Bibl. Graec. iii. p. 258; St. Croix in the Magasin. Encyclop. Cinquième Annee, vol. iii. p. 359.[L.S
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Boe'thius (search)
ometimes ascribed to him are made up from that of his father in 487, and that of his sons in 522. 3. Previously husband of Elpis Besides his wife, Rusticiana, later and especially Sicilian writers have supposed, that he was previously the husband of a Sicilian lady, Elpis, authoress of two hymns used in the Breviary (" Decora lux," and " Beate Pastor," or according to others, " Aurea luce," and "Felix per omnes"), and by her to have had two sons, Patricius and Hypatius, Greek consuls in A. D. 500. But this has no ground in history: the expression " socerorum," in Consol. Phil. 2.3, refers not to two fathers-in-law, but to the parents of Rusticiana; and the epitaph of Elpis, which is the only authentic record of her life, contradicts the story altogether, by implying that she followed her husband (who is not named) into exile, which would of course leave no time for his second marriage and children. (See Tiraboschi, vol. iii. lib. 1. c.4.) 4. Death and the Embassy of Pope John I.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Eustra'tius (search)
wn, except what can be gathered from the work itself. It is directed against those who maintainted that the souls ceased to act and operate as soon as they quitted the human body. Photius (Bibl. Cod. 171) knew the work, and made some extracts from it, which is a proof that Eustratius must have lived before Photius. Further, as Eustratius repeatedly mentions the works of Dionysius Areiopagita he must have lived after the publication of those works, which appear to have been circulated about A. D. 500. It is therefore very probable that Eustratits lived at the time of Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople, that is, about A. D. 560, as in fact Eustratius himself says in almost as many words. His work was first edited by L. Allatius in his de Occidentalium atque Orientalium perpetua in Dogmate Purgatorii consensione, Rom. 1655, 8vo., pp. 319-581. The style of Eustratius, as Photius remarks, is clear, though very different from classic Greek, and his arguments are generally sound. (Fabric
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Justinianus Magnus or Justinian the Great (search)
of the subjugated Roman provincials and their conquerors. In the West Gothic kingdom, which was established in Spain and a part of Gaul, a collection of Roman laws was formed during the reign of Alaric II. (A. D. 484-507), partly from the Theodosian, Gregorian, and Herimogenian Codes, and partly from the works of jurists. This collection is known in modern times by the name Breviariumn Aniani [ANIANUS], or Breviarium Alaricianum. In A. D. 493 the Ostrogoths became masters of Italy, and in A. D. 500 Theodoric the Great published for the use of the whole population of the Ostrogothic kingdom a set of rules based on the Roman, not the Gothic law. About the year A. D. 517 the Lex Romana Burgundiorum was compiled for the use of the Burgundian Romans. The Burgundian conquerors, who, towards the middle of the fifth century, established a kingdom upon the banks of the Rhone, had already a similar code of their own, called Gundobada. Though the necessities which called for these legislative
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Theodoricus (search)
m their gifts. He became ruler of the Visigoths on the death of his son-in-law Alaric II. The only legitimate son of Alaric was a child named Amalaric, whom he had by the daughter of Theodoric; and to protect the rights of his grandson against the Franks, he sent an army into Gaul, by which he established his power in that country. Theodoric usually resided at Ravenna, but he removed his court to Verona, whenever his kingdom was threatened by the neighbouring barbarians. On one occasion (A. D. 500), he visited Rome, where he convened the senate, and assured them of his intention to govern with justice. Although ignorant of literature himself, Theodoric encouraged learned men; and among his ministers were Cassiodorus and Boethins, the two last writers who can claim a place in the literature of ancient Rome. Prosperous as had been the reign of Theodoric, his last days were darkened by disputes with the Catholics, and by the condemnation and execution of Boethius and Symmachus, whom he