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Anastasius I

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[an-uh-stey-shuhs, -shee-uhs] / ˌæn əˈsteɪ ʃəs, -ʃi əs /

noun

  1. a.d. c430–518, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 491–518.

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"You mustn't do anything so mad, Anastasius, I forbid you."

From Simon the Jester by Locke, William John

If I had discovered Captain Vauvenarde instead of Anastasius I would have anathematised him as the most meddlesome, crazy little marplot that ever looked like Napoleon the Third.

From Simon the Jester by Locke, William John

Anastasius I had one black eye and the other blue, from whence he derived his name "Dicore," by which this Emperor of the Orient was generally known.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

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