• Paul the Silentiary, also known as Paulus Silentiarius (Greek: Παῦλος ὁ Σιλεντιάριος, died AD 575–580), was a Greek Byzantine poet and courtier to the...
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    great revival at the hands of Agathias of Myrina, the historian, Paulus Silentiarius, and their circle. Their ingenious but mannered productions were...
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  • the Patria of Codinus). Procopius, De Aedificiis and the poem of Paulus Silentiarius on the dedication of St. Sophia should be read in connexion with...
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    Chrysostom mentions altar cloths made of cloth-of-gold. The writings of Paulus Silentiarius mention purple altar cloths, and a colored miniature in the tenth-century...
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  • Leontius Byzantinus (continuation), Patriarch Ephraim of Antioch, Paulus Silentiarius, Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople, Evagrius Scholasticus, Eulogius...
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  • Leontius Byzantinus (continuation), Patriarch Ephraim of Antioch, Paulus Silentiarius, Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople, Evagrius Scholasticus, Eulogius...
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  • bibliography. He contributed to literary journals under the pen-name of “Paulus Silentiarius,” edited The Philobiblion (2 vols., New York, 1862-1863), and assisted...
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    Typical of this kind of literature are the commemorative poem of Paulus Silentiarius on the dedication of the church of St. Sophia, and that of Georgius...
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  • verses are of the same light amatory character as those of Agathias, Paulus Silentiarius, Macedonius, and others. Cameron 1982, p. 168. Page, ed. 1978, pp...
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    1835) 37: Georgius Pachymeres, ed. Bekker, vol. 2 (Bonn, 1835) 38: Paulus Silentiarius, George Pisida, Nicephorus Cpolitanus, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1837) 39:...
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