History of an Embassy to the AethiopiansOn his return he wrote a
History of his embassy, which has perished, but an
abridgment of it has been preserved by Photius (
Bibl. Cod. 3). From the
account of Photius we learn that the father of Nonnosus, whose name was Abraham, had been
also sent on an embassy to the Saracens, and that his grandfather Nonnosus had likewise been
sent on a similar embassy by the emperor Anastasius.
Editions
The abridgment of Photius has been reprinted, in the Bonn collection of the
Byzantine writers, in the volume containing the fragments of Dexippus, Eunapius, &c.,
edited by Niebuhr and Bekker, 1829.