Procopius

[ proh-koh-pee-uhs, pruh- ]

noun

1. a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.

Procopius

/ prəʊˈkəʊpɪəs /

noun

1. Procopius?490?562MByzantineHISTORY: historian ?490–?562 ad , Byzantine historian, noted for his account of the wars of Justinian I against the Persians, Vandals, and Ostrogoths

Example Sentences

One story about the 6th century Ostrogothic queen Amalasuintha, whom the Roman historian Procopius extolled as such a wise and courageous ruler that she was essentially a “female man,” foreshadows her violent death: “In the marketplace there was an image of her father Theoderic, and when the stones about his genitals fell to the ground, Amalasuintha passed from the world.”

From Salon

Indeed, Procopius wrote that Amalasuintha would not meekly give way to a coup as “a woman would,” and paid with her life.

From Salon

For some people, spite was its own reward; the historian Procopius records that when the Persian king Khosrow I captured the Roman city of Apamea in 540 AD, he arranged a chariot race in which hippodrome attendants, following his orders, held up the charioteer from the Roman emperor’s favored Blue faction so that his rival Green competitor would pass him and win.

From Salon

Various regions in Asia have been proposed as the origin of this second plague pandemic—the first being the sixth-century Justinian plague, which historian Procopius claimed killed 10,000 people a day in Constantinople and weakened the Eastern Roman Empire.

From Scientific American

Aëtius’s gynecological treatise has often been associated with the patronage of the elite imperial circle of Empress Theodora in Constantinople, an empress whom the court historian Procopius once described as often conceiving, “but by using almost all known techniques she could induce immediate miscarriage.”

From Scientific American