Αὐρηλιανός
Aurelian, Aurelianus, Aurelianos
Translated by William Hutton2 Apr 2002Vetting: high13 revisions
Translation
Emperor of the Romans, a man who had awesome skill in the arts of war, but being undisciplined in his thinking and inclining markedly toward savagery, he submitted many of the notables in the city to the death penalty for being disgraced by Zenobia.1 He was by nature stubborn and murderous, and more a forcible general than an elected emperor, and, being harsh and unapproachable in every situation, he did not remain clean even of the blood of his own family: for he did away with the wife of his son without due process. But of the discipline of the soldiers and their vanishing and corrupt morals he was overall a genuine restorer.
See the oracle about him under "If he should suffer".2
See the oracle about him under "If he should suffer".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Αὐρηλιανός, βασιλεὺς Ῥωμαίων, τὰ πολέμια δεινῶς ἠσκημένος, ἀκάθεκτος δὲ περὶ τὴν γνώμην καὶ πολὺ πρὸς ὠμότητα ῥέπων τῶν τε κατὰ πόλιν ἐπισήμων θανάτῳ πολλοὺς ἐζημίωσεν ὑπὸ Ζηνοβίας ἐλεγχθέντας, χαλεπός τις καὶ φονικὸς ὑπάρχων καὶ μᾶλλον ἀναγκαῖος στρατηγὸς ἤπερ αἱρετὸς βασιλεὺς, ἐν παντὶ δὲ καιρῷ δυσχερὴς καὶ ἀπρόσιτος, ὡς μηδὲ τῶν οἰκείων αἵματος διαμεῖναι καθαρός· τὴν γὰρ τοῦ παιδὸς γαμετὴν καὶ ἀνέγκλητον διεχρήσατο. τοῦ δὲ τῶν στρατιωτῶν τάγματος καὶ τῶν ἐξιτήλων καὶ διαλελυμένων ἠθῶν ὡς ἐπίπαν γενναῖος ἦν ἐπανορθωτής. ζήτει περὶ αὐτοῦ χρησμὸν ἐν τῷ αἴ κε πάθοι.
Betacode
*au)rhliano/s, basileu\s *(rwmai/wn, ta\ pole/mia deinw=s h)skhme/nos, a)ka/qektos de\ peri\ th\n gnw/mhn kai\ polu\ pro\s w)mo/thta r(e/pwn tw=n te kata\ po/lin e)pish/mwn qana/tw| pollou\s e)zhmi/wsen u(po\ *zhnobi/as e)legxqe/ntas, xalepo/s tis kai\ foniko\s u(pa/rxwn kai\ ma=llon a)nagkai=os strathgo\s h)/per ai(reto\s basileu\s, e)n panti\ de\ kairw=| dusxerh\s kai\ a)pro/sitos, w(s mhde\ tw=n oi)kei/wn ai(/matos diamei=nai kaqaro/s: th\n ga\r tou= paido\s gameth\n kai\ a)ne/gklhton diexrh/sato. tou= de\ tw=n stratiwtw=n ta/gmatos kai\ tw=n e)cith/lwn kai\ dialelume/nwn h)qw=n w(s e)pi/pan gennai=os h)=n e)panorqwth/s. zh/tei peri\ au)tou= xrhsmo\n e)n tw=| ai)/ ke pa/qoi.
Notes (2)
- Lucius Domitius Aurelianus, emperor 270-275; De Imperatoribus Romanis entry by Christian Körner at web address 1. The Suda's material here is John of Antioch fr. 155 FHG (4.599), now 235 Roberto; cf. Eutropius, Breviarium 9.13. See also alphaiota 291.
- 1cf. epsilon 281, lambda 645. ↩
- 2alphaiota 165 (
ai)/ ke pa/qoi ). ↩
References
OCD(4) pp.209-10, s.v. Aurelian
External resources
- Web address 1 roman-emperors.sites.luc.edu
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- αι291Αἱρετόνpreferable[Meaning] desirable. [Something] is called this in three ways: [because it is] good, [because it is] pleasant, [or because it is] advantageous. Whatever has all of these and is preferable in each respect is more to be…
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- ε281Ἐζημίωσενpenalized[Meaning he/she/it] took away/killed. "The emperor Aurelian penalized many of the citizens with death." Meaning condemned [them], convicted [them].
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