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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Aca'cius (search)
Aca'cius 4. Bishop of Constantinople, succeeded Gennadius A. D. 471, after being at the head of the Orphan Asylum of that city. He distinguished himself by defending the Council of Chalcedon against the emperor Basiliscus, who favoured the Monophysite heresy. Through his exertions Zeno, from whom Basiliscus had usurped the empire, was restored (A. D. 477), but the Monophysites meanwhile had gained so much strength that it was deemed advisable to issue a formula, conciliatory from its indefiniteness, called the Henoticon, A. D. 482. Acacius was led into other concessions, which drew upon him, on the accusation of John Talaia, against whom he supported the claims of Peter Mongus to the See of Alexandria, the anathema of Pope Felix II. A. D. 484. Peter Mongus had gained Acacius's support by professing assent to the canons of Chalcedon, though at heart a Monophysite. Acacius refused to give up Peter Mongus, but retained his see till his death, A. D. 488. There remain two letters of his,
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Nepos, Ju'lius the last emperor but one of the Western Empire, A. D. 474-475. He was the son of Nepotianus, by a sister of that Marcellinus who established a temporary independent principality in Illyricum, about the middle of the fifth century. [MARCELLINUS.] A law of the Codex of Justinian mentions a Nepotianus as general of the army in Dalmatia in A. D. 471, but it is doubtful whether this was the emperor's father or the emperor himself, as it is not clear whether the true reading of the Codex is Nepotianus or Nepos, and even the determination of the reading would not settle the point, as Theophanes (Chronographia, ad A. M. 5965) gives to the emperor himself the name of Nepotianus, and adds that he was a native of Dalmatia. It is not improbable that the family of Marcellinus preserved, after his death in A. D. 468, a portion of the power which he had possessed in Illyricum, and that this was the motive which induced the Eastern emperor Leo [LEO I.] to give to Nepos his niece (or,
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Patri'tcius (search)
there seem sufficient reason for identitfying these. It is difficult to ascertain the dates of these transactions; the elevation of Patricius is fixed by Cedrenus in the twelfth year of Leo, i. e. A. D. 469; the assassination of Aspar is placed by the Alexandrian Chronicle in the consulship of Pusaeus and Joannes, A.D. 467; by Theophanes in A. M. 5964; Alex. era, A. D. 472; and by the Latini chroniclers, Marcellinus, Cassiodorus, and Victor of Tunes, whose date is adopted by Tillemont, in A. D. 471; we do not attempt to reconcile these discrepancies. This Patricius, the son of Aspar, is to be distinguished from Patricius, magister officiorum, whom the intriguing empress Verina [VERINA], Leo's widow, after driving her son-in-law Zeno [ZENO] from his throne and capital, hoped to mairr, but who was put to death by Basiliscits, Verilat's brother [BASILISCUS]; from Pelagiius Patricius, the supposed author of the Homero-Centra [PATRICIUS, Literary, No. 5] ; and from Patricias, a distinguis
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Priscus or Priscus Panites (search)
and most important Byzantine historians, was surnamed PANITES, because he was a native of Panium in Thrace. We know little of his life in general, but much of a short, though highly interesting and important period of it, viz. from A. D. 445-447, when he was ambassador of Theodosius the Younger at the court of Attila. The embassy consisted of several persons. In later years he and one Maximinus transacted diplomatic business for the emperor Marcian, in Egypt and Arabia. He died in or about A. D. 471. Niebuhr thinks he was a heathen. Works Account of Attila Priscus wrote an account of his embassy to Attila, enriched by digressions on the life and reign of that king, the Greek title of which is *(Istori/a *Bizantikh\ kai\ kata\ *)Atth/lai. which was originally divided into eight books, according to Suidas. This is the most valuable account we have on Attila, and it is deeply to be regretted that only fragments of it have come down to posterity : it was written after the death of T