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Zonaras, Syncellus, and Agathias—a Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Averil M. Cameron
Averil M. Cameron
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University of Glasgow
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Chapters 3 and 4 of Book 80 of Dio Cassius, dealing with the founding of the new Sassanid dynasty in Persia, have to be reconstructed from Xiphilinus on the one hand and the Excerpta Valesiana on the other. Zonaras 12. 15 in turn excerpts Xiphilinus; but Zonaras 12. 15, p. 572. 7–10 B. is not to be found in either of the excerptors of Dio. The words are as follows:

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , May 1964, pp. 82 - 84
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1964

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page 82 note 1 Cf. Dio Cassius ed. Boissevain, , iii (Berlin, 1901), p. 477.Google Scholar

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