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Constantius, author of Vita of Germanus of diplomacy, term 4–6
Auxerre Domegisel, envoy 234
identity 117
letters to Patiens and Censurius 116, 118, Eborinus, comestabuli and envoy 233, 234
133, 282 Ebregisel, envoy 234, 235
literary skills 115, 117, 121 Ebroin, major domus 265
Vita Germani 33, 115–137, 162, 168, 170, Ecdicius, magister militum 167
172, 236, 238, 251, 258, 269, 276 Edeco, Hunnic envoy 254
‘Alleluia victory’ 118, 121, 130, 131, 134 education 26; see also rhetoric
chronology 154, 278–283 Egidius, bishop of Rheims 233, 235, 252
date of composition 116 Elafius, bishop of Chˆ alons-sur-Marne 233
death scene 119, 128, 135, 281 embassies 1–2, 222–272
embassy to Goar 118, 119, 120, 121, 124, accession 73, 184; see also Euric
129, 131, 134, 141 accommodation, expenses, travel 110, 186,
embassy to imperial court 119, 120, 128, 188, 189, 223, 225, 228, 238, 243, 256,
134, 137 271
embassy to praetorian prefect of Gaul 130, in classical Greece 13
134, 137 in republican Rome 17
influence of Paulinus, Vita Ambrosii 154 see also hospitalitas
influence of Sulpicius, Vita Martini 123 commission, see envoys, selection of
journeys to Britain 118, 119, 120, 130, competition to participate in 110
136, 282 duration 237, 242
miracles in 118, 119, 121, 122, 126, 132, in earlier antiquity 3–4, 11–26; see also
135, 145, 156, 157 Athens; Greece, Roman empire;
narrative techniques 119–133 Roman republic
preface 132, 133 financing 187; see also evectio; tractoria; viaticum
structure 118–119, 154 informal negotiations 228, 252, 271
see also heros; labor information gathering 256
see also Clermont, Gothic siege of; Ennodius, interpretation of, in modern studies 2, 34,
Vita Epiphani; Orientius; Vivianus 275
Constantius II, emperor 20, 122 in later Middle Ages 10
Constantius, magister militum and later western multiple simultaneous 45, 46, 70–73, 75
emperor 56, 64, 98 municipal, provincial, senatorial 1, 5, 9, 10,
Consularia Constantinopolitana 37, 38, 44 22–25, 26, 29, 110, 111, 113–171, 188,
conventus in Spain 58 221, 231, 236, 238, 269, 274
convivia 141, 144, 146, 147, 228, 241, 246, 252, legislation and administrative
254, 255, 256, 271 arrangements concerning 23–24, 110,
councils, provincial, see aristocracies, of Italy, of 186, 187, 189, 221, 231, 239, 242, 246;
Gaul, assemblies of Ctesiphon see also evectio; cursus publicus
creed, and selection of envoys, see Arianism palatine 33, 110, 172–219, 232–237
Ctesiphon 73, 253 patronage 188, 243
cura palatii 188, 259 presentation in literary sources 1–2, 39–42,
cursus publicus 238 237, 275; see also under Cassiodorus,
in Roman empire 24 Variae; Constantine VII
in western kingdoms 189, 239–242 Porphyrogenitus; Constantius, Vita
Cyprianus, comes sacrarum largitionum and envoy Germani; Ennodius, Vita Epiphani;
190, 194, 203 Hydatius, Chronicle; Orientius of Auch,
Cyrila, dux 45, 66, 82, 236 Vita of; Photius; Senarius, Epitaph;
Sidonius Apollinaris, Panegyric;
Dalmatia 183, 190, 203, 274 Vivianus, Vita of
Danube river, as frontier 19 reception of 41, 188, 221, 223–226, 244
Decii 183, 201 in classical Greece 13
Demetrius of Phalerum 13 as mark of prestige 41
Demosthenes 12 Persian envoys, at Constantinople 225
Dionysus 132 record of audience 224
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