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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Belisa'rius (search)
the Persians under Nushirvan or Chosroes (541-543) (Procop. Pers. 1.25), from which he was again recalled by the intrigues of the empress Theodora, and of his wife Antonina, and escaped the sentence of death only by a heavy fine, and by his complete submission to his wife. (Procop. Hist. Arcan. 3, 4.) The second act of the Gothic war, which Belisarius undertook in the office of count of the stables, arose from the revolt of the Goths and reconquest of Italy under their new king, Totila, A. D. 541-544. (Procop. Goth. 3.2-9.) Belisarius, on arriving in Italy, made a vigorous but vain endeavour to raise the siege of Rome (May, 546--Feb. 547), and then kept in check the hostility of the conquerors, and when they left the city, recovered and successfully defended it against them. (Procop. Goth. 3.13-24.) His career was again cut short by the intrigues of the Byzantine court, and after a brief campaign in Lucania, he returned from Italy, Sept. A. D. 548 (Procop. Goth. 3.29-32), and left
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Boe'thius (search)
2.1), or (according to Anonym. Vales. p. 36) by the torture of a cord drawn round his head till the eyes were forced from their sockets, and then by beating with clubs till he expired. Symmachus was also beheaded, and Rusticiana reduced to poverty, till Amalasontha, widow of Theodoric and regent during her son's minority, replaced his statues and restored to her his confiscated property. (Procop. Goth. 1.2, Anec. 10; Jornand. Reb. Get. 89.) Rusticiana was, however, on the sack of Rome, in A. D. 541, chiefly by her liberality to the besieged, again reduced to beggary, and was only saved by the kindness of Totila from the fury which this liberality, as well as her destruction of Theodoric's statues in revenge for her husband and father, had excited in the Gothic army. (Procop. Goth. 3.20.) In A. D. 722, a tomb was erected to Boethius's memory by Luitprand, king of the Lombards, in the church of S. Pietro Cielo d'Oro, and in A. D. 990, a more magnificent one by Otho III., with an epitap
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Jaco'bus (search)
Jaco'bus 7. Of EDESSA, the elder, called also by a Latinized form of his Syrian cognomen BARADAEUS, and by the Greeks Zanzalus (*Zanzalos), a word which Nicephorus Callisti interprets as meaning " poor," was originally a monk in the monastery of Phasilta. and was elevated to the bishopric of Edessa A. D. 541. He took a leading part in the Monophysite council, in which Paulus was elected patriarch of Antioch of their party. He succeeded in uniting the various subdivisions of the Monophysites into one sect, and they have received from him the name of Jacobites. He died A. D. 578. The Nestorians speak of him as patriarch of the Jacobites, but this is not correct: he never attained any higher dignity than that of bishop of Edessa; the error has probably arisen from his great influence in his party, and from his having given name to them. Both Jacobites and Nestorians have the most aburd and exaggerated stories respecting him: the Jacobites affirm that he ordained two patriarchs, one arch