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Rocco, envoy 233, 236 Saxons
Roma, personification of 92, 94 raid Britain 71, 118, 121, 131, 134
Roman empire 3 raid Saintes 144
administration of, see embassies, municipal, schism, see Acacian schism; Laurentian schism
provincial, senatorial Scipio, myth of 197
break-up of 1, 2–3 Sebastian, magister militum 61, 92
early, practices for dispatch and reception of Second Sophistic 25, 273
embassies 17–26 Secundinus, envoy 234, 235
eastern (‘Byzantium’) 7, 29 Secundinus, Gallic poet 117
relations with; bishops of Rome 266; Senarius 1, 2, 171, 172–174, 191–219, 235
Frankish kingdom of Gaul 180, 212, career and family 193, 196, 202–203, 204,
221, 236, 242, 260, 263, 265, 267; Huns 212, 219
73; Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy 180, embassies of 9, 204–212, 235, 242
185, 187; Persia 7, 20–22, 38, 40, 42, before battle of Vouill´ e 208–212
52, 73, 226, 230, 249, 253, 263; Epitaph 34, 173, 194–198, 204, 218, 275
Visigothic kingdom of Gaul 84; see also literary qualities of 196
Frankish kingdom; Ostrogothic text and translation 194
kingdom; Persia; Theoderic; Vandal transmission and editions of 290
kingdom; Visigothic kingdom letters addressed to 173
eastern and western halves 7, 21, 235 Avitus of Vienne 213
unity of 224 Cassiodorus 184, 204, 211, 212, 218, 285,
see also emperors 286–289
Roman republic 3 Ennodius 199–201, 205, 210, 213
practices for dispatch and reception of John the Deacon 214–218
embassies 17 name 198
romance 131, 135, 157, 269 orthodoxy of 214–218
Romania,term 28 Senate of Constantinople 234
‘Romanisation’ and ‘provincialisation’ 24, Senate of Rome, senators 89, 192–193, 200,
28 201, 252
Rome, city 165, 235 as audience of imperial propaganda 86, 90,
aristocracy of, see Senate 276
as imperial residence 90 caput senatus 183, 186, 187, 224, 233, 275
sack of by Alaric in 410 96, 166 and Cassiodorus, Variae 181, 184, 191
sack of by Geiseric in 455 87, 94–96, 103, and embassies, in republic and early empire
105, 166; see also Vandal kingdom 17–18, 24
seige by Ricimer 159, 166 embassies from 114, 130, 183
see also Roma; Roman empire; Senate to emperors 9, 231, 233, 238, 244, 256
Romulus, western emperor 233 and imperial court(eastern) 180, 186
Rufinus, vir inlustris and envoy 234, and imperial court(western) 90
259 as patrons of embassies 243
Rugi senators as envoys of emperors or kings 40,
in Noricum 60 162, 183, 185, 186, 187, 233, 234, 263,
in Pavia 153 275
Rusticius, bishop of Lyons 164, 166, 243, 251, and Theoderic 192, 201, 204
285 see also Avitus; envoys, of Theoderic
SeverinusofNoricum, see Eugippius
Sabines 104 Severus, bishop of (?) Trier 118, 282
saints, cult of 243; see also Alban; hagiography; Severus, Constantinopolitan senator and envoy
Saturninus 160, 257
Salla, envoy 46 Severus, Libius, western emperor 51, 69, 145
Salvian 139, 143 Severus, priestof Vienne, Vita of 136
Saracens, see Arabia Shahin, Persian general 19
Sassanians, see shahs of Iran; Persia shahs of Iran 253; see also Cavades I; Chosroes I;
Saturninus, martyr 144, 145, 146, 239, Chosroes II; Ctesiphon; Hormisdas;
243 Persia; Shapur II; Shapur III
332