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Roman empire 7, 20–22, 29, 32, 38, 40, Procopius of Caesarea, historian, Wars 15, 31,
42, 52, 73, 220, 230, 235, 249, 253 41, 44, 220, 244, 246, 247, 252, 254,
see also shahs of Iran 262, 263, 268, 270, 271
Peter patricius, eastern magister officiorum 22, 29, prophets, see hagiography, conventions
249 Prosper, Chronicle 49, 68, 74
embassies of 227, 235, 238, 242, 244, 260, and Germanus of Auxerre 130, 280
264 and Pope Leo I 39, 114, 130
and Isdigousnas Zich 225 Prosper, comes rei militaris 20
record of eastern court protocol 223–227, Prosperus, bishop of Orl´ eans 283
230 Provence 200, 203, 207, 212, 244, 274
record of negotiations in 561 29, 248 proxenia,proxenos 14, 15
see also Constantine VII, De ceremoniis Psuedo-Joshua the Stylite, Chronicle 52
Petronius Maximus, western emperor 87, 101 Pulcheria, eastern augusta 95
appointment of Avitus as magister militum 42, Pyrenees 65
96, 103 Pyrrhus, Epirotking 100
death of 89, 95, 105
and Roman aristocracy 90 Quadi 38
Phaethon 104 quaestor 235; see also Cassiodorus; Urbicus
philosophers, as envoys 22 Quintianus, panegyricist 92
Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 25
Phocas, eastern emperor 76, 267 Radan, cubicularis and envoy 233, 234
Phoebus 104 Ragnovald, general and envoy 236
Phoenix 103 rank, see ceremonial, rank
Photius, patriarch, Bibliotheca 30–32 Ravenna 90, 266
Phylarchus, envoy 235 rebaptism, see baptism
Picts, raid Britain 118, 121, 131, 134 Reccared, Visigothic king in Spain 73, 232,
pilgrimage 20 241, 255, 257, 260
Pippin I, maior domus 233 Rechiarius, Suevic king 48, 62, 63, 65
plebs, in Spain 34, 45, 58, 59–60, 61, 75 Rechila, Suevic king 62, 63, 64
Plutarch 24 Rechimund, see Richymund
Po river 241, 263 Remigius of Rheims 28
Poitiers 270 Remismund, Suevic king 36, 50, 52, 61, 62,
Polybius 17 66, 69, 71, 234, 257
popes, as envoys, see bishops Renatus 214, 234
populus Romanus 17 Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus, historian 32
portents 36 reports, see envoys, reports by
Possidius, Vita Augustini 126, 157 rhetoric, rhetorical training, oratory 1, 22, 25,
post, official, see cursus publicus 26, 85, 92, 111, 131, 154, 157, 164, 185,
praetorian prefect, in Ostrogothic Italy 188 190, 204, 219, 231, 235, 248, 263, 268,
priests, as envoys, see bishops 275
princesses, role in marriage alliances 269; see in classical Greece 16
also Amalaberga; Amalafrida; rhetors, see Athens; rhetoric
Galswintha; Rigunth Rhine river 19, 103
Priscian, grammarian 244 Richymund 83
Priscillian, Priscillianists 59, 124, 141, 143 Ricimer, western magister militum 64, 69, 70,
Priscus of Panium, historian and envoy 30, 44, 166
257, 262 and Epiphanius of Pavia 152, 285, 286–289
embassy to Attila 190, 254, 255 naval victory over Vandals 51, 52
embassy to Rome 253 see also Rome, city
see also Attila Rigunth, Frankish princess 241
Proclus, quaestor 253 ‘Riot of the Statues’, see Antioch
Procopius, eastern emperor 260 rivers
Procopius, general and father of Anthemius, as as frontiers, see Danube, Euphrates, Meuse,
envoy 93 Rhine
Procopius, tribunus et notarius 20, 21–22 as transport routes, see waterways
331