10-22-2010, 10:51 PM
Oh, and I might be mistaken myself - just spotted a very old typo in one of my Vortigern Studiees pages about chronology: I claim that carthage fell in 339! :oops:
I came up with this regarding the date of the fall of Carthage:
The day Geiseric captured Carthage
The exact date of Geiseric’s raid on Carthage is given in the Reichenau version as
Post consulatum Theodosii XVII et Festi and was shortened in Mommsen’s edition
to Post consulatum Theodosii et Festi.61 Prosper Tiro mentions the capture of
Carthage on the 14th of the calendae of November 439. Most of the Prosper
manuscripts contain this date of 19 October as the day Carthage was taken by the
Vandals. Furthermore, Prosper mentions that from 146 BC the town was a Roman
one for 585 years.62 Marcellinus Comes takes up the same day and year.63 Hydatius
provides 19 October in the fifteenth year of the reign of Valentinian III.64
Cassiodorus’ chronicle contains the same year but no day.65 The seventh-century
Byzantine Chronicon Paschale dates by the month Hyperberetaeus – October – and
the consulate of Theodosius XVII et Festus, as well as by the 31st year and the
seventh indiction of Theodosius II’s reign.66 There is an agreement among these
different sources concerning the year but they differ in the specific day given. The
date of 19 October is important because King Geiseric used it for dating some of his
coins.67 Mommsen tried to base his argument for a general chronology for the
Vandal kingdom upon the Madrid version’s ab ingressu Carthaginis.68
I came up with this regarding the date of the fall of Carthage:
The day Geiseric captured Carthage
The exact date of Geiseric’s raid on Carthage is given in the Reichenau version as
Post consulatum Theodosii XVII et Festi and was shortened in Mommsen’s edition
to Post consulatum Theodosii et Festi.61 Prosper Tiro mentions the capture of
Carthage on the 14th of the calendae of November 439. Most of the Prosper
manuscripts contain this date of 19 October as the day Carthage was taken by the
Vandals. Furthermore, Prosper mentions that from 146 BC the town was a Roman
one for 585 years.62 Marcellinus Comes takes up the same day and year.63 Hydatius
provides 19 October in the fifteenth year of the reign of Valentinian III.64
Cassiodorus’ chronicle contains the same year but no day.65 The seventh-century
Byzantine Chronicon Paschale dates by the month Hyperberetaeus – October – and
the consulate of Theodosius XVII et Festus, as well as by the 31st year and the
seventh indiction of Theodosius II’s reign.66 There is an agreement among these
different sources concerning the year but they differ in the specific day given. The
date of 19 October is important because King Geiseric used it for dating some of his
coins.67 Mommsen tried to base his argument for a general chronology for the
Vandal kingdom upon the Madrid version’s ab ingressu Carthaginis.68
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
