A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

3. A patrician and marshal of the Byzantine circus (πατπίκιος καὶ λογοθέτης τοῦ δρόμου), wrote an epitaph on a certain Anastasius, who had gained many victories in the horse-races; which is preserved in the Anthology of Planudes. (Anth. Planud. p. 408, Steph., p. 543, Wechel.; Brunck, Anal. vol. iii. p. 124; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iv. p. 94, vol. xiii. p. 961.)