• Ablabius (floruit 3rd-5th-century CE) is thought to be either a historian, a geographer or ethnographer, who had written about the Goths, and whose work...
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  • the Greek Anthology Ablabius (consul), Praetorian prefect of the East of Constantine I, from 329 to 337/338 Ablabius (historian) (floruit 4th/5th century)...
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  • and Theophanes the Confessor. Ablabius was a son of Meltiades. Nothing else is known about his family, and Ablabius's exact status in society is uncertain...
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    Nicholas appeared to Constantine and Ablabius in dreams, informing Constantine of the truth and frightening Ablabius into releasing the generals, for fear...
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  • Seleucus was a Greek nobleman who was the son of the wealthy Cretan Flavius Ablabius, by an unnamed woman. His family was connected to the ruling Constantinian...
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  • Roman Empire in its declining years. According to the historian Ablabius, as reported by the historian Jordanes, the Visigoths had been ruled by the Balti...
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    Constans became engaged to Olympias, the daughter of the praetorian prefect Ablabius, although the two never actually married. After Constantine's death, Constans...
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    Peter Heather (category British historians)
    readier than before to see genuine Gothic traditions among those employed by Ablabius, Cassiodorus and then Jordanes... His analyses irreparably damaged the...
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  • him an ancestor of Ermanaric and Theodoric the Great (XIV 79). Ablabius the historian relates that in Scythia, where we have said that they were dwelling...
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    Mierow's list of cited authors is summarized as follows: Ablabius. Otherwise unknown historian, author of the work Gothorum gentis ("of the Gothic people")...
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    story is generally told in their early songs, in almost historic fashion. Ablabius also, a famous chronicler of the Gothic race, confirms this in his most...
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  • fifteen other classical sources, including an otherwise unknown writer, Ablabius. Many scholars accept that Jordanes' account on Gothic origins is at least...
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  • narrative agrees with the work of a lost chronicler of the Goths called Ablabius, and (in a well-known comment) "the ancient Gothic songs, which are almost...
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    Arsaces II (Arshak II). The paternal grandfather of Olympias was Flavius Ablabius who had held consular rank in Constantinople, while her maternal uncle...
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    disquisition in J. A. Symonds's Studies of the Greek Poets (1873; 3rd ed., 1893). Ablabius Illustrius Aceratus Grammaticus Adaeus of Macedonia Aemilianus of Nicaea...
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  • Olympias, daughter of the late consul Ablabius. Constantius also granted Arshak exemption from taxation. The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus describes Arshak...
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    assumed due to the rearranging of a narrative first penned by a Goth named Ablabius in 471 and expanded by Cassiodorus, which he then himself abridged again...
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  • – Dalmatius, Caesar and nephew of Constantine I (executed) 338 Flavius Ablabius, Roman consul and politician Li Qi, Chinese emperor of Cheng Han (b. 314)...
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    palace in Constantinople that had previously been part of the property of Ablabius, a praetorian prefect of the East under Constantine I. About a year after...
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    conventionally referred to as fasti, or indirectly through the ancient historians, who had access to linen rolls recording the names of magistrates. Although...
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  • al-Malik ibn Salih St. Aberkios Monastery Abkhazia, Kingdom of Ablabius (consul) Ablabius (assassin) About the Mystery of the Letters Abraham of Ephesus...
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  • excluded from imperial service, Christians could have brilliant careers, like Ablabius, a Greek of humble origin, who held the highest offices between 324 and...
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