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Monophysitism 228 miracles in 140, 145, 146
Musonianus, praetorian prefect 21 structure 139, 141, 147
Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy 242
Namatius, bishop of Orleans 233 documentation for 9, 172
names, personal 199 relations with
Naples 263, 270 eastern empire 187, 235
Narbonne, Narbo 69, 101, 107 Persia 8, 32, 220, 263
Nathan, Old Testament prophet 125; see also see also Theoderic
hagiography, conventions war with Justinian, see Justinian
Nepos, western emperor 111, 152, 162, 167, see also: Amalafrida; Amalasuntha; Athalaric;
284; see also Ennodius, Vita Epiphani, Eutharic; Gudeliva; Justinian;
embassy to Euric Theodahad; Theoderic, relations;
Nepotian, magister militum 83, 236 Totila; Vitigis
Nero, emperor 95
Nicene Christianity, as criterion for selection pactio,see treaties
of envoy 232 Palogorius, vir nobilis 45, 66, 82, 231
Nichomachus Flavianus 44 Pamphronius 210
Nikephorus, Short History 4, 19 panegyric, genre 110, 248, 276
Nonnos of Panopolis, Dionysiaca 132 conventions of 25, 33, 85, 86, 90, 91–94, 95,
Nonnosus, historian and envoy 30 98, 107, 253
Nori 100 delivered atreception of embassy 224,
Noricum 60 252
Novempopulana 207 Pannonia 203, 206
parades, military, see ceremonial
oaths 233, 248, 250 Parthenius 231, 244
Octavian, see Augustus Pastor, citizen of Clermont 110, 231
Odoacer, king in Italy 149, 151, 152, 162, 200, Paternus, envoy (fictitious?) 268
201, 203, 218, 274 Patiens, bishop of Lyons, see Constantius,
embassy to Zeno 233 letter to
and Epiphanius of Pavia 148 Patrick, S., Vita of 136
supporters of 153, 157, 163 Patroclus 101
officials, palatine 249, 252 Paulinus, Vita Ambrosii 122, 124–125, 129, 134,
Persian 226; see also cura palatii; embassies, 156, 157; see also Constantius, Vita
reception; envoys, palatine; magister Germani; Ennodius, Vita Epiphani;
officiorum; quaestor Vivianus of Saintes, Vita
Olybrius, Anicius, senator, envoy, and later Paulinus of Pella, Eucharisticos 56
emperor 154, 233 Paulinus Petricordus 117
Olympiodorus of Thebes, historian and envoy Paulus, prefectof Rome 239
29–30, 44 Pavia 189, 207, 241
On Envoys ( ) 222, seiges of 152, 155, 163
262 see also Ennodius, Vita Epiphani
Opilio, envoy 45, 67, 231, 234, 238 pax, as treaty between provincials and kings 46,
Oppila, envoy 234 55, 56, 59, 60, 62, 63, 76; see also treaties
oratores, in early Roman republic 4 Pelagianism 215
oratory, see oratores; rhetoric in Britain 118, 120, 130, 133, 134, 136
Orestes, Hunnic envoy and magister militum in Gaul 139
152, 167, 254, 284 Pelagius, deacon of Rome and later pope 231,
Orientius, bishop of Auch 232, 235, 254, 263, 264, 266
Commonitorium 95, 138 Peri presbeon ( ), see On Envoys
Vita Orientii 33, 115, 138–143, 154, 168, 169, Persia (ancientIran)
232, 276 envoys to Roman empire 37, 225, 226, 238,
influence of Vita Germani 138, 140–141, 242, 251, 255, 256; see also Isdigousnas
143, 145, 146 relations with
influence of Vita Martini and Dialogi 138, Goths of Italy 32, 220
141, 146 Persarmenia 259
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