The Imperial Administrative System in the Ninth Century; With a Revised Text of Kletorologion of Philotheos (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... irepi ra. furnishes information as to duties, connected with the haggage mules, to which Optimati were deputed, during imperial progresses through Asia Minor (476,477, 487). But in the sixth century the Optimati had a privileged position, belonging to the select troops (tV/Xttra), among which they acted as a reserve. They were under a taxiarch. See (Maurice) Strat. i. 3, 28, cp. Aussaresses, op. tit. 16, who thinks they may have been about 2,000 strong. (Them. 26) show how they were looked down upon by the scholarians, &c. They were exclusively infantry, and Ibn Khurdadhbah says that they numbered 4,000 (Gelzer, 18). The Optimati were not divided into turms or drungoi (Them., loc. cit.), and so there was no turmarch or drungary in the officium of the Domestic. His officium was similar to that of the other Domestics, though he seems to have had no protomandator; on the other hand, like the strategoi, he had a protocancellarius. The chartulary and the /courts are enumerated among the strators, Phil. 73712-13. In irepi Tz . 477-2, 15 we find bia Tov Kop.tjtos T&v onnp.iruv. The question therefore arises whether Kop.rjres in Philotheos is a mistake for Kojjaqs. (7) 6 Ko'p.ijs rav reixicov. This dignitary is called by Philotheos 6 bop.4o-tiKos T&v retxoi twice (71522, 77212), but elsewhere Ko'p.tjs (7142, 7284, 73121, 75220), which was evidently the official title. So Takt. Uspenski 119, Cer. 67. He was also called briefly 6 reix-oirrjs, Cont. Th. 175, 398, Cer. 29521, irtpl TCt . 46014. The post is mentioned by Genesios (5), where the reference is to the reign of Michael I. But it is of much older date. In A.d. 718-19 we meet an S.pxav Tov Teixcov (Theoph. 401, r-x2i Niceph. Patr. 565).1 The question arises whether the Tei'xij, ...