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Philagrius (financial Minister)
Philagrius or Philagrios may refer to: * Philagrius (prefect of Egypt), Roman governor of Egypt in 335–337 and 338–340 * Philagrius (comes Orientis) * Philagrius of Epirus *Philagrios, a co-editor of '' Philogelos'' *Hieromartyr Philagrius of Cyprus, an East Orthodox saint {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philagrius (prefect Of Egypt)
Flavius Philagrius ( grc-gre, Φλαούιος Φιλάγριος; 335–350) was a Roman state official under the emperors Constantine I and his son Constantius II. He served two terms as governor of Egypt (335–37 and 338–40), and finally as governor of Pontus in northern Anatolia. During his term of office in Egypt, he threatened and helped exile the trinitarian bishop of Alexandria, Athanasius, on behalf of the Arians, and throughout his career he acted in support of the Arian cause against adherents of the creed of Nicaea. Biography Flavius Philagrius () was a native of Cappadocia, and apparently belonged to an upper-class family, for, like other members of the elite in the eastern Roman provinces, he studied at Athens. Before 335 he served as a , a senior fiscal official. In 335 the Emperor Constantine appointed Philagrius as prefect (governor) of Egypt. He was the first man of senatorial rank to hold that office; the previous holders had all belonged to the equestrian ord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philagrius (comes Orientis)
Philagrius ( 361–382 AD) was a Roman politician. From 361 to 363 he was a notary in service of the Emperor Julian. In Gaul in 361 Julian employed Philagrius to kidnap the Alamannic king Vadomarius, whom Julian's rival, the Emperor Constantius II, had instigated to attack him. Philagrius accompanied Julian on his invasion of Persia in 363. In 382 Philagrius was serving as , that is, governor of the diocese of the East, under the Emperor Theodosius I. During his term of office a famine broke out in the region. Initially said to have shown moderation in his response, Philagrius eventually lost patience and flogged the bakers for raising prices, stopping only after the Antiochene rhetor protested Libanius. Philagrius exchanged several letters with Libanius, who praised him for his contempt of lampoons and acclamations alike. He is probably identical with the patrician Philagrius who was an ancestor of the Western Roman emperor Avitus and of bishop Magnus Felix Ennodius Magnus F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philagrius Of Epirus
Philagrius of Epirus ( el, Φιλάγριος ὁ Ηπειρώτης; 3rd century CE) was a Greek medical writer from Epirus, who lived after Galen and before Oribasius, and therefore probably in the 3rd century CE. According to the Suda he was a pupil of a physician named Naumachius, and practised his profession chiefly at Thessalonica. Theophilus gives him the title of ''περιοδευτής'', periodeut, which probably means a physician who travelled from place to place in the exercise of his profession. He seems to have been well known to the Arabic medical writers, by whom he is frequently quoted, and who have preserved the titles of the following of his works. # De Impetigine # De iis quae Gingivae Dentibusque accidunt. # De iis qui Medico destituuntur. # De Morborum Indiciis # De Arthritidis Morbo. # De Renum vel Vesicae Calculo. # De Hepatis Morbo. # De Morbo Colico. # De Morbo Icterico. # De Cancri Morbo. # De Morsu Canis. The Suda says he wrote as many as 70 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philogelos
''Philogelos'' ( grc, Φιλόγελως, "Love of Laughter") is the oldest existing collection of jokes. The collection is written in Ancient Greek, and the language used indicates that it may have been written in the fourth century AD, according to William Berg, an American classics professor. It is attributed to Hierocles and Philagrius, about whom little is known. Because the celebration of a thousand years of Rome is mentioned in joke 62, the collection perhaps dates from after that event in 248 AD. Although it is the oldest existing collection of jokes, it is known that it was not the oldest collection, because Athenaeus wrote that Philip II of Macedon paid for a social club in Athens to write down its members' jokes, and at the beginning of the second century BC, Plautus twice has a character mentioning books of jokes. The collection contains 265 jokes categorised into subjects such as teachers and scholars, and eggheads and fools. Modern day In 2008, British TV personalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |