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retinue of 238 in classical Greece 12, 15
routes 242 in republican Rome 17
secrecy, see arcana see also embassies, municipal, etc.
to several destinations 209; see also literary presentation of 94, 230, 276
Galswintha; Venantius Fortunatus by Sidonius 85, 109, 111; see also
as sign of recipient’s status 77, 253 Cassiodorus, Variae; Constantius, Vita
terms for 4, 22, 82, 130, 204, 265 Germani; Ennodius, Vita Epiphani;
see also ceremonial; envoys; letters, Orientius of Auch, Vita; Sidonius,
diplomatic Panegyric on Avitus; Senarius, Epithet;
emperors, Roman, and foreign embassies Vivianus of Saintes, Vita
in early empire 18 multiple trips by same envoy 111, 235, 265;
in late empire 19, 56 see also Avitus; Censorius; Nonnosus;
and provincial embassies 22–25 Senarius
and Senate of Rome 90 in New Testament 133
and western kings 29 number of principal envoys 182, 237
see also consistorium palatine 172–219, 225, 232–237, 275
empire, Roman, see Roman empire rewards for 33, 158, 170–171, 172, 190,
Ennodius, deacon of Milan and later bishop of 192, 202, 212, 219, 224, 235
Pavia reports by 170, 245
career and writings 148–152, 188, 259 written 248
embassies 221, 230 restriction of movement 14, 246
to Constantinople 9, 151, 213, 227–230, royalty as 236
243; see also Hormisdas, Indiculi selection of 172, 231–238
to Gaul 243, 284 in classical Greece 13, 15
works in late Roman empire 20–22
Dictiones; on Epiphanius 149, 151, 156, status of 109, 221, 275–276
160, 163, 165; on Laurence of Milan from palatine embassies 172, 218, 235, 269
152 from provincial embassies 21, 33, 34, 77,
letters 243 114–116, 170, 174, 231
Panegyric to Theoderic 150, 211 within embassy 77, 238
Vita Antoni 152 see also rank
Vita Epiphani 33, 34, 115, 148–171, 172, terms for 4, 82, 158, 265; see also
230, 231, 236, 238, 244–251, 252, 269, aristocracies; bishops; embassies;
271, 276; apparentfailures of embassies generals; letters, diplomatic; rhetoric
in 166; chronology 284; death scene of Theoderic the Ostrogoth 162, 185, 231,
155, 164, 246; embassies; first 152, 158; 232, 233, 235, 244; see also John I;
to Anthemius 156, 159, 162, 166, 248, Senate
249, 251; to Euric 50, 159, 162, 166, epic tone 135
167, 245, 248, 284; to Gundobad 149, in hagiography 131; see also heros
153, 156, 157, 159, 161, 163, 164, 165, Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia 50, 243
169, 170, 230, 232, 241, 245, 248, 285; career 149, 152, 153
to Theoderic 148, 153, 156, 157, 161, dates 284
163, 165, 230, 245, 248, 249, 285; death 149, 153
Ennodius appears in 163, 169; influence see also Ennodius, Vita Epiphani
of Vita Germani 148, 153–158, 169; Epiphanius, Historia tripartita 265
Liguria in 150, 152, 159, 162, 166–169; Epistolae Austrasicae 267
miracles in 156, 160, 163; modern epistolography, see letters
interpretations of 164; speeches in 247; epitaphs 33, 194
structure 152 conventions of 196
see also Senarius, letters to epithets, see envoys
Ennodius, bishop in Gaul 233 Eraric, Ostrogothic king 252
envoys 1, 4, 6 Ethiopia 242
epithets of 156, 159, 165, 196 Eucherius of Lyons, Passio Acaunensium
instructions 9, 237 martyrum 136
legal position of Eudocia, daughter of Valentinian III 68, 87
325