Examples of using Procopius in English and their translations into Vietnamese
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Jordanes and Procopius called the Suebi"Suavi".
These early documents include the writings of Jordanes and Procopius.
Procopius, with an English translation by H.B. Dewing.
Of the Heruli to Scandinavia, Procopius places the Slavs in Central Europe.
Benedictine University was founded in 1887 in Chicago as St. Procopius College.
The Secret History of Procopius was discovered in the library and published in 1623.
The single most important source forJustinian's Persian wars up to 553 is Procopius.
According to Procopius, the Vandals came to Africa at the request of Bonifacius, the military ruler of the region.
When he died, Julian had left behind one surviving relative,a maternal cousin named Procopius.
Though Jovian made accommodations to appease this potential claimant, Procopius fell increasingly under suspicion in the first year of Valens' reign.
Jordanes, Procopius and other late Roman authors provide the probable earliest references to southern Slavs in the second half of the 6th century.
Theophylact Simocatta wrote that the Slavs"dismounted from their horses in order tocool themselves" during a raid, and Procopius wrote that Slav and"Hun" horsemen were Byzantine mercenaries.
Procopius completed his three works on Emperor Justinian I's reign(Buildings, History of the Wars, and Secret History) during the 550s.
Ancient authors, notably the Byzantine scholar Procopius, wrote about the wars fought by the Sassanians against their northern neighbors during this period.
Procopius had been charged with overseeing a northern division of Julian's army during the Persian expedition and had not been present with the imperial elections when Julian's successor was named.
The last significant historian of the Western ancient world, Procopius was fascinated with the diverse minority populations inhabiting the outskirts of the Byzantine Empire.
In Wars VII.14, 25, Procopius wrote that the Slavs"fight on foot, advancing on the enemy; in their hands they carry small shields and spears, but they never wear body armour".
Thus, on the basis of fairly hard evidence of unknown machinery in Joshua the Stylite and Agathias,as well as good indications of its construction in Procopius(especially when read against Strategikon), it is likely that the traction trebuchet had become known in the eastern Mediterranean area at the latest by around 500.
The Christian rhetorician Procopius described in detail prior to 529 a complex public striking clock in his home town Gaza which featured an hourly gong and figures moving mechanically day and night.
Theophylact Simocatta wrote that the Slavs"dismounted from their horses in order tocool themselves" during a raid,[61] and Procopius wrote that Slav and"Hun" horsemen were Byzantine mercenaries.[62] In their dealings with Sarmatians and Huns the Slavs may have become skilled horsemen, explaining their expansion.
According to Procopius, the Imperial couple made all senators, including patricians, prostrate themselves before them whenever they entered their presence, and made it clear that their relations with the civil militia were those of masters and slaves.
He didn't call them Slavs in his writings(to Procopius they were the“Antes” or the“Sclaveni”), but they were undoubtedly an early Slavic-speaking tribal people.
Agreeing with Jordanes's report, Procopius wrote that the Sclavenes and Antes spoke the same languages but traced their common origin not to the Venethi but to a people he called"Sporoi".
The extreme and conventional nature of the negative rhetoric of Procopius and the positive rhetoric of John of Ephesus has led most scholars to conclude that the veracity of both sources might be questioned.
When Belisarius eventually returned to Italy, Procopius relates that"during a space of five years he did not succeed once in setting foot on any part of the land… except where some fortress was, but during this whole period he kept sailing about visiting one port after another."[5] Totila circumvented those cities where a drawn-out siege would have been required, razing the walls of cities that capitulated to him.
Although numbers are unknown and some historians debate the validity of estimates,based on Procopius' assertion that the Vandals and Alans numbered 80,000 when they moved to North Africa, Peter Heather estimates that they could have fielded an army of around 15,000- 20,000.
Written in the 6th century CE, Procopius' work describes the Slavs as a barbarous yet democratic people, monotheistic with a polytheistic-style god(they made sacrifices to a single“lightning” god);
Though her specific involvement in theselegal reforms is not recorded,[22] Procopius, in Wars, mentioned that she was naturally inclined to assist women in misfortune, and according Secret History, she championed the wives' causes when their husbands charged them with adultery(SH 17).
When Belisarius eventually returned to Italy, Procopius relates that during a space of five years he did not succeed once in setting foot on any part of the land, except where some fortress was, but during this whole period he kept sailing about visiting one port after another.
