Πλακίλλα
Placilla, Flacilla
Translated by David Whitehead3 Mar 2010Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Wife of Theodosius the Great.1 She was a pious women who loved the poor, and she personally attended to the diseased and the lepers. She died first, before her husband; and the emperor's anger demonstrated especially the emperor's affection for her. This anger was directed against the people of Antioch, who, irked by the public taxes that the emperor had imposed on the cities under the pretext of the never-ending wars, had pulled down and dragged away the stele [sc. commemorating her]. [This was] also when [John] Chrysostom wrote the [27 Homilies on] Statues.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πλακίλλα, γαμετὴ Θεοδοσίου τοῦ μεγάλου· ἥτις εὐσεβὴς καὶ φιλόπτωχος ἦν καὶ δι' ἑαυτῆς τοῖς νοσοῦσι καὶ τοῖς λελωβημένοις ὑπηρέτει. πρώτη δὲ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἐτελεύτησεν. ἔδειξε δὲ μάλιστα τὸ περὶ αὐτὴν τοῦ βασιλέως φιλόστοργον ἡ ὀργὴ τοῦ βασιλέως, ἣν κατὰ Ἀντιοχέων ὠργίσθη, δι' ἣν κατέαξαν σύραντες τὴν στήλην, ἀγανακτοῦντες, δι' ὧν ἐπέθηκε τέλη δημόσια ὁ βασιλεὺς ταῖς πόλεσι προφάσει τῶν συνεχῶν πολέμων. ὅτε καὶ ὁ Χρυσόστομος τοὺς Ἀνδριάντας ἔγραψε.
Betacode
*plaki/lla, gameth\ *qeodosi/ou tou= mega/lou: h(/tis eu)sebh\s kai\ filo/ptwxos h)=n kai\ di' e(auth=s toi=s nosou=si kai\ toi=s lelwbhme/nois u(phre/tei. prw/th de\ tou= a)ndro\s e)teleu/thsen. e)/deice de\ ma/lista to\ peri\ au)th\n tou= basile/ws filo/storgon h( o)rgh\ tou= basile/ws, h(\n kata\ *)antioxe/wn w)rgi/sqh, di' h(\n kate/acan su/rantes th\n sth/lhn, a)ganaktou=ntes, di' w(=n e)pe/qhke te/lh dhmo/sia o( basileu\s tai=s po/lesi profa/sei tw=n sunexw=n pole/mwn. o(/te kai\ o( *xruso/stomos tou\s *)andria/ntas e)/graye.
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Revision history5 revisions · last 23 May 2016
- Revised — David Whitehead
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- typo; another keyword — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead