Anonymous 5218 - The dux Arabiae
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"A military commander with the rank of dux, probably the dux Arabiae, accompanied the comes domesticorum Magnus to Syria in 581 to assist him with the capture of the Arab client king al-Mundhir. Al-Mundhir's son al-Nu'man later revenged his father by attacking the dux in Bostra, as is recounted in Joh. Eph., EH 3.41 and 42."2
Names
- Anonymous 5218
- ܕܘܟܣ
- The dux Arabiae
Floruit
c.582
Sex
male3
Notes
"A military commander with the rank of dux, probably the dux Arabiae, accompanied the comes domesticorum Magnus to Syria in 581 to assist him with the capture of the Arab client king al-Mundhir. Al-Mundhir's son al-Nu'man later revenged his father by attacking the dux in Bostra, as is recounted in Joh. Eph., EH 3.41 and 42."2Status: draft
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- 1 J. R. Martindale, A.D. 527-641 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), entry: Anonymus 44p: 1435.
- 2 J. R. Martindale, A.D. 527-641 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p: 1435.
- 3 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 175; 177.
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