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For the work of fiin mrrtttrlty, tfte Illrtorier, Agatlrlnr wnr cquippccl
t
neither by noturrrt inclinntion nor by personnl exlrericncc, llis life lrrrd, it
of routine dullncss
portfaygl
of
the
busy working lifc
by
his
conjured
up
toil
and unremitting
e is but slightly relieved by the recollection of a few
in
the
capital
lawyer
of a
m.-orrtl.
occasions
;il;;i.;;irr.
tt
common.
10 Histories
tl
III, I,4.
II, 15, 5-8.
Histories II ,
12 Histories
L6,4-6.
I1,L7,6.
lr
30-58.
15 Cf. Ibid. pp. 57--{8.
16 Histories II, 17, 1-8.
*"rr,tr
on.t
comes
;fur;;1id"p"nd.ntly'of
original.
-In
I have..sought to
irfiil i; ;. "uy ti^t i., -att"r, of vocabulary and _idiom and
colloquialism
form
7ith regard to proper names,2l wherev-er there was an acceptable
Hellenithe
of
transliteration
g"glfrh
unmodified
an
simply
;iid, ws nt
r"
has been
,.Juio" of the word given by Agathias, such an alternative form
to the
approximation
a
closer
represented
ii
if
particulay
fr*fy ,a.p,ed
some Non-cotonial coloni of Augustus (in-Transactions and
"fjRs,Broughton:
ii*"i "f lhe Ametican Philological Association66,l9)5 Pp'20-22)'are cofrect,
18 Of course one cnnot be absolutely slue tht Broughton's identifications.
,,
but-the treatmeEt
nor is there ny wy of knowing how garbled Agathias'original /as,
.approadr. As regards-the gengral
his
of
good"illusttion
a
to'pro.ria.
r-;;
DI. R_'C. McCail'
,ir*rr.rr of hi, -rt..iri it is interesting to note tht, accotding to
Agathias. G-reek, Roman and
of
Birth-date
the
and
.
551
.
q""t"
or
rrr."*t
uol. no. ) 1967 pages 246-7), aesthetic considerations have led
XI
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