Procopius

American  

[proh-koh-pee-uhs, pruh-] / proʊˈkoʊ pi əs, prə- /

noun

1. a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.

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Procopius British  

/ prəʊˈkəʊpɪəs /

noun

1. ?490–?562 _ad , Byzantine historian, noted for his account of the wars of Justinian I against the Persians, Vandals, and Ostrogoths

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Example Sentences

One story about the 6th century Ostrogothic queen Amalasuintha, whom the Roman historian Procopius extolled as such a wise and courageous ruler that she was essentially a “female man,” foreshadows her violent death: “In the marketplace there was an image of her father Theoderic, and when the stones about his genitals fell to the ground, Amalasuintha passed from the world.”

From Salon

For some people, spite was its own reward; the historian Procopius records that when the Persian king Khosrow I captured the Roman city of Apamea in 540 AD, he arranged a chariot race in which hippodrome attendants, following his orders, held up the charioteer from the Roman emperor’s favored Blue faction so that his rival Green competitor would pass him and win.

From Salon

Various regions in Asia have been proposed as the origin of this second plague pandemic—the first being the sixth-century Justinian plague, which historian Procopius claimed killed 10,000 people a day in Constantinople and weakened the Eastern Roman Empire.

From Scientific American

Byzantine Greek scholar Procopius wrote of the plague’s beginnings, “It began with the Egyptians who live in Pelusium. It divided and part went to Alexandria and the rest of Egypt, and part to the people of Palestine, the neighbors of the Egyptians, and from there, overran the whole earth.”

From Fox News

However, diaries from Procopius, a noted historian back then, indicate that many thought the end of civilization was upon them.

From Washington Post