Ioannes, logothetes under Konstantinos IX M XI
ὁ λογοθέτης Ἰωάννης (Ioannes 115)
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Utterly incapacitated for every activity
πρὸς πᾶσαν πρᾶξιν πεπηρωμένον παντάπασιν. Psellos: Chronographia VI 177.9-10
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τῶν τῆς βουλῆς πάντων κορυφαιότατον. Zonaras 17.28.12
Leader of the senate
τὰ πρῶτα τῆς γερουσίας. Psellos: Chronographia VI 177.9
Among the most prominent courtiers in the palace
οἱ τὰ πρῶτα ἐν τοῖς βασιλείοις φέροντες. Skylitzes 477.81-82
Chief co-power with
Konstantinos 9
, a castrated manikin, undistinguished or most ignoble by birth and by nature unsuited for participation in government
τὰ πρῶτα ὁ λογοθέτης ἦν Ἰωάννης, ἐκτετμημένον ἀνδράριον, ἄσημον μὲν ἐκ γένους ἢ δυσγενέστατον, πρὸς δὲ πραγμά´των μεταχείρισιν ἀφυέστατον. Zonaras 17.28.11
Outcast
τοῦ καθάρματος. Psellos: Chronographia VI 177.6-7
A lad, very simple and foolish, who a year before had not touched pen and ink and was promoted from the gutters and street-corners to the axis of Roman power
μειράκιον ἀφελέστατον καὶ ἀνοητότατον, πέρυσιν οὔπω καλαμίδος ἡμμένον καὶ μέλανος, ἐκ τῶν βαράθρων καὶ τῶν τριόδων εἰς τὸν ῾Ρωμαϊκὸν ἀναβεβηκὸς ἄξονα. Psellos: Chronographia VI 177.3-6
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Logothetes
λογοθέτης. Skylitzes 477.82
λογοθέτης. Glykas 599.1
λογοθέτης. Zonaras 17.28.11
λογοθέτου. Psellos Letters (Sathas) 190.483
Paradynasteuon
παραδυναστεύοντα. Skylitzes 477.82
Education
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So far participating in grammatical skill that he could neither speak with correct exactitude nor write correctly without stumbling
γραμματικῆς δὲ τέχνης τοσοῦτον μετεσχηκὸς ὥστε μήτ᾿ ὀρθοεπεῖν ἀκριβῶς μήτ᾿ ἀπταίστως ὀρθογραφεῖν. Zonaras 17.28.11
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Castrated manikin
ἐκτετμημένον ἀνδράριον. Zonaras 17.28.11
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