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Envoys and Political Communication,411–533

Table 1 (cont.)

13 456 c. 177 [170] The emperor Avitus sends a legation under the tribunus
Hesychius to Theodoric II, bringing imperial rewards to
Theodoric and formally announcing the magiter utriusque
militiae Ricimer’s victory over the Vandals in Corsica.
(The latter news had already been reported to Theodoric;
cf. c. 176 [169] and Burgess, ‘Reply’, 338 n. 11.)

End of the first edition of the Chronicle?
The Sueves,fragmented after the death of Rechiarius,form a pax with the Gallaecian
provincials,457 (c. 188 [181])
A Gothic army occupies Baetica,458 (c. 192 [185])

14 and 15 (Simultaneous embassies)
458 c. 192 [185] Embassies are sent by both the Vandals (14) and the Goths (15)
to the Sueves; they return. These legations appear to concern
the Gothic occupation of Baetica.

Renewed conflict between Sueves and Gallaecian provincials; Goths intervene in Gallaecia and
also enter Lusitania,459–60 (cc. 196,199,201–7 [191,194,196–202])

16–20 459 3
16 459 c. 197 [192] Envoys are sent to the Gallaecian provincials by the Magister
militum Nepotian and the comes Suneric to announce the new
alliance between the emperor Majorian and Theodoric II, after
the defeat of the Goths in battle.
17–18 and 19–20 (Joint embassies?)
= Fredegar, Envoys are sentby Majorian (17, 18) and Theodoric II (19, 20)
Chron. ii, 55,p. 76, to the Sueves and the Vandals to announce the new pax.
lines 22–3
21–22 460 21 460 Theodoric II sends envoys to the Sueves; they return.
c. 205 [200]
22 460 Suevic envoys sent to Theodoric II; they return.
c. 208 [203] (Cf. Fredegar, Chron. ii, 55,p. 76, lines 28–9, suggesting that
these envoys soughtand obtained a pax from the Goths; the
passage, however, is unclear.)
23 460 c. 209 [204] Geiseric seeks a pax from Majorian through envoys.
24, 25, 26 The Gallaecian vir nobilis Palogorius travels to Theoderic II
463 c. 219 [215] (24).
Theodoric II sends the general Cyrila to Gallaecia; Palogorius
returns with him (25).
Rechimund, one of the leaders of the fragmented Sueves, sends
envoys to Theodoric II (26). Meeting Cyrila and Palogorius en
route, they return to Lugo in northern Gallaecia where they

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