Τριβωνιανός
Tribonianos, Tribonianus, Tribonian
Translated by Ioannis Doukas4 Aug 2008Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
From Side,1 he too [was one] of the jurist-prefects, a learned man. He wrote in epic verse a commentary to Ptolemy's2 Canon,3 a Concord of the universal and harmonic arrangement, Regarding the ruling and the governing [sc. planets],4 Regarding the houses of the planets, and why a house corresponds to each of them, Regarding the 24 metrical feet and the 28 rhythmical ones, a [sc. Latin] Translation of Homer's Catalogue of Ships,5 a Macedonian Dialogue or on happiness, and a Life of Theodotus the philosopher6 in three books, in prose a Consular [speech] to the emperor Justinian,7 a Royal [speech] to the same, and Concerning the succession of months in epic verse.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τριβωνιανός, Σιδήτης, ἀπὸ δικηγόρων τῶν ὑπάρχων καὶ αὐτός, ἀνὴρ πολυμαθής. ἔγραψεν ἐπικῶς ὑπόμνημα εἰς τὸν Πτολεμαίου Κανόνα, Συμφωνίαν τοῦ κοσμικοῦ καὶ ἁρμονικοῦ διαθέματος, Εἰς τὸν πολεύοντα καὶ διέποντα, Εἰς τοὺς τῶν πλανωμένων οἴκους, καὶ διὸ ἑκάστῳ οἶκος ὁ δεῖνα, Εἰς τοὺς κδʹ πόδας τοὺς μετρικοὺς καὶ τοὺς κηʹ τοὺς ῥυθμικούς, Μετάφρασιν τοῦ Ὁμηρικοῦ τῶν νεῶν καταλόγου, Διάλογον Μακεδόνιον ἢ περὶ εὐδαιμονίας, καὶ Βίον Θεοδότου φιλοσόφου ἐν βιβλίοις τρισίν, Ὑπατικὸν καταλογάδην εἰς Ἰουστινιανὸν αὐτοκράτορα, Βασιλικὸν εἰς τὸν αὐτόν, Περὶ μηνῶν ἐναλλαγῆς, ἐπικῶς.
Betacode
*tribwniano/s, *sidh/ths, a)po\ dikhgo/rwn tw=n u(pa/rxwn kai\ au)to/s, a)nh\r polumaqh/s. e)/grayen e)pikw=s u(po/mnhma ei)s to\n *ptolemai/ou *kano/na, *sumfwni/an tou= kosmikou= kai\ a(rmonikou= diaqe/matos, *ei)s to\n poleu/onta kai\ die/ponta, *ei)s tou\s tw=n planwme/nwn oi)/kous, kai\ dio\ e(ka/stw| oi)=kos o( dei=na, *ei)s tou\s kd# po/das tou\s metrikou\s kai\ tou\s kh# tou\s r(uqmikou/s, *meta/frasin tou= *(omhrikou= tw=n new=n katalo/gou, *dia/logon *makedo/nion h)\ peri\ eu)daimoni/as, kai\ *bi/on *qeodo/tou filoso/fou e)n bibli/ois trisi/n, *(upatiko\n kataloga/dhn ei)s *)ioustiniano\n au)tokra/tora, *basiliko\n ei)s to\n au)to/n, *peri\ mhnw=n e)nallagh=s, e)pikw=s.
Notes (7)
- On the jurist Tribonian see generally OCD(4) s.v., a summary of Honoré 1978 by its author. Here in the Suda there is a purported distinction between tau 951 ('Tribounian' [sic], quaestor under Justinian), tau 956 (Tribonian the Hellenised Macedonian), and the present entry. In fact they all concern the same individual. The present entry focuses on the literary (non-juristic) works attributed to him.
- 1In Pamphylia, present-day Antalya province, Turkey. Google Maps and Pleiades entry at web addresses 1 and 2. ↩
- 2pi 3033. ↩
- 3See the Livius entry at web address 3. Such a work is also attributed to the Egyptian philosopher Theon (theta 205; cf. pi 265). ↩
- 4For the astrological terms
poleu/w anddie/pw , see Paulus Alexandrinus, Elementa 21 (*peri\ tou= poleu/ontos kai\ die/pontos ); they refer to the planet that rules respectively the day and the hour of one's birth. ↩ - 5Homer, Iliad 2.494-759 (web address 4). ↩
- 6Bernhardy would emend the name to Theodosius. ↩
- 7iota 446, and DIR entry at web address 5. ↩
References
Honoré, T., Tribonian, London 1978
External resources
- Web address 1 maps.google.com
- Web address 2 pleiades.stoa.org
- Web address 3 livius.org
- Web address 4 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 5 roman-emperors.sites.luc.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 9 Mar 2021
- tweaked links — Catharine Roth
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another note — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified primary note; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ioannis Doukas