biography
pronunciation:
[prokohpius]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.499–565)
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| biography:
| Byzantine historian, born in Caesarea (now in Israel). He studied law, and accompanied Belisarius against the Persians (526), the Vandals in Africa (533), and the Ostrogoths in Italy (536). He was highly honoured by Justinian, and seems to have been appointed prefect of Constantinople in 562. His principal works are histories of the Persian, Vandal, and Gothic wars, and an attack on the court of Justinian. |
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