19816, Cer. 520.).1 The office was sometimes united with others, e. g. in the reign of Theophilus, Theoktistos was Logothete and also ènì Tоû KAVIKλeίov (Gen. 8317). This must also, I think, have been the case with Gregory Bardas under Leo IV, of whom Schlumberger has published a seal (Sig. 528) which he reads [Bari]λik(w) aσikpit' και λογοθετ(η) του δρομου. I suspect that aσikpir' is intended for α' ασικριτ' = πρωτοασηκρήτῃ, though it is of course possible that an άσnkρýτηs on becoming logothete might retain his position in the τάξις ἀσηκρητῶν.2 The logothete was received in audience every morning by the Emperor (Cer. 520) in the Chrysotriklinos. It was his duty to present ministers and officers (stratêgoi, domestici, &c.) to be invested by the Emperor (ib. 525 sqq.). At the silention in the Magnaura, at which the Emperor makes a public speech, the logothete is associated with the protoasecretes and the chief of the Imperial notaries (ib. 546). He naturally played the most important part at the reception of foreign envoys or potentates (ib. 568, 138); also at the exhibition of captives (6107, 15) • (1) Thе пржτоνоτápios тоû Spóμov (spathar Phil. 735, and Takt. Usp. 124, or inferior ib. 127) appears in some of the ceremonies (conducting captives at a triumph, Cer. 60921, 613,; bearing the sportula of the archon of Taro, 13822, 5695). He is mentioned in Cont. Th. 19819. (2) Xaprovλápioι Tоû Spóμov (spathars Takt. Usp. 125; omitted accidentally in the list of spathars in Phil.), in full oi x. Toû ¿§éov dpóμov Phil. 78822, and so De adm. imp. 184 (Sinartes, a eunuch) x. T. ¿géos d. They are probably to be identified partly with the curiosi per omnes provincias 3 (Not. Dig., Or. xi. 51), and partly with the xaprovλápioi тŵV Bapẞápov who play a part in the reception of the Persian ambassador, as described by Peter the Patrician (Cer. 40415, 40514) and belonged to the scrinium barbarorum (see below). For vorápio in the scrinium of the (provincial ?) xaprovλápios we have the evidence of a seal (tenth or eleventh century): Λεον(τι) νοτ' του χαρτό του δρομο (Mél. 240). 1 We may, I think, assume that Thomas the logothete, in Vita Euthymii (ed. De Boor) 16. 9, was Log. of the Course. Probably Xaσans or[p]úto(pi) Toù doY(obeσiov), Mél. 260 (ninth-tenth century), belonged to this officium. We have also a seal of Martin, Imperial spatharocandidatus and λoyobern rov ožews Spopov (Sig. 529) and one of Stylianos (533)? After the eighth century the Logothete would hardly have as low as spatharocandidate rank. Theoktistos was a patrician. Under Leo VI the office was held by his father-in-law Stylianos, with the rank of magister (Cont. Th. 354,); in the tenth century Leo Rhabduchos was μάγιστρος καὶ λογοθέτης τ. δρ. (De adm. imp. 156). 3 Cp. C. Th. 6. 29, De curiosis. (3) ἐπισκεπτῆται. There are some late seals of ἐπισκεπτῆται who possibly belong here, e. g. that of Epiphanios, Baσidikoû êmiokettítov Пodávтov (Sig. 315). They probably had to report on matters connected with the safety of the provinces and frontiers.1 (4) Epμnvevтaí are the interpretes diversarum gentium in the officium of the mag. off. in Not. Dig., Or. xi. 52. Cp. Peter Patr., in Cer. 40416. (On this subject cp. Bury, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, xv. 540-1.2) The body of interpretes must have belonged to the scrinium barbarorum which is mentioned in A.D. 441 in a constitution of Theodosius II, addressed to the mag. off. (Nov. 21), and is referred to in the text of Peter (Cer. 400g), from which we learn that, besides the chartularii an optio (ó ỏπtíwv tŵv ß., 401), was attached to it, who was sent to Chalcedon to supply the Persian envoy with money. (5) ὁ κουράτωρ τοῦ ἀποκρισιαριείου. The ἀποκρισιαριεῖον was (as the title koupárop shows) a building; and we may readily conjecture that it was a hostel for the entertainment of foreign envoys (ἀποκρισιάριοι). (6, 7) diatρéxovtes (= cursores) and μavdáropes, cp. Phil. 786189 19° The scrinium barbarorum, though not mentioned by Philotheos in connexion with the Logothete, seems to have been still in existence. Phil. 725, mentions & ßápßapos (see also πepì raέ. 461), who is evidently identical with ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν βαρβάρων, who is recorded by several seals. Schlumberger has published six seals of Staurakios, a protospathar, who held this office. A seal of Peter ß. a′ σñabaρios kaι Eπη τWV ẞapßaрwv he ascribes to the ninth century. Sig. 448 sqq. See also Panchenko, ix. 357, xiii. 142; Konstantopulos, No. 307. Rambaud thinks that the function of the scr. barb. was to defray the expenses of foreign ambassadors. It seems to me more probable that the Bápẞapos exercised supervision over all foreigners visiting Constantinople. (5) ὁ χαρτουλάριος τοῦ σακελλίου. The Sakellion has been already dealt with. The Chartulary is sometimes called briefly d roû σakeλλíov (Phil. 777, Cer. 11520). We also find σakéλλŋs instead of oakeλλíov (e. g. Takt. Usp. 127, Phil. 1 There were лlokettŷtai under (1) the Prefect of the City, (2) the Logothete of the Course, (3) the Great Curator, (4) the Logothete of the Flocks. Seals of officers with this title are generally ambiguous, e. g. that of an éяɩσк. and кOUBoukaiolos published by Panchenko, xiii. 113. 2 A épμnveús for Arabic, in the army, is mentioned by Theoph. Sim. 2. 10. 6. 3 This word was applied to foreign as well as Imperial envoys; cp. Theoph. 3921 42927, 475.27 13, 15, 73522, 75018, 763. Schlumberger (Sig. 580) has published a seal of uncertain date ( VIII•-XI° siècle') of a Chartulary: λ' καὶ χαρ[τουλ]αρ ̓ τοῦ β[ασιλικού) σ]ακελ[λίζου. (1) νοτάριοι βασιλικοὶ τοῦ σεκρέτου (Takt. Usp. ὁ νοτάριος σακέλλης, read of ―ol, under spathar rank), Phil. 7351⁄2 oi σñabápioi kal BaσidiKOI νοτάριοι τῆς σακέλλης, 752. ν. τοῦ σακελλίου, Cer. 6942 οἱ ν. τῆς σakéλλns, 5947. They correspond to the primiscrinii of the comes rei priv. (Not. Dig. Or. xiv). 1 (2) πρωτονοτάριοι θεμάτων. The duties of a πρωτονοτάριος of a theme are illustrated in the schedule of the preparations for the Cretan Expedition of A.D. 902, Cer. ii. c. 44. There we find the protonotary of the Thrakesian theme arranging for the purchase of the provisions required by the soldiers, for a supply of flax for caulking the vessels and for the use of the Greek fire-guns, and for a supply of nails (p. 658). The protonotary of the Cibyrrhaeot theme is to buy 60,000 nails for fastening hides to the vessels (p. 659). For duties connected with moving the Imperial baggage, which the Emperor left behind when he crossed the Saracen frontiers, see teρì Tag. (see further 464, 4662, 4779, 47918, 4892.) The protonotaries had it in their power to oppress the provincials, Cont. Th. 44315. Their seals are common.2 3 (3, 6, 7) The έevodóxoι and yпpokóμot (spathars Phil. 7364, 6; inferior Takt. Usp. 127) were heads of §evŵves 3 and ynpokoμeîa supported by the state. They appear in the company of ὁ τοῦ σακελλίου (sc. χαρτ.), Cer. 11520, Phil. 777. The xaртovλáρioι тŵv olкwv, i. e. тŵv evayŵv otkov, dealt with the accounts and expenditure of these establishments. Possibly εὐαγῶν should be restored here: Takt Usp. has οἱ χαρτουλXápioi tŵv evayŵv olκwv 127, and so Phil. 7534. evay's was technical, in this connexion, from an early period: cp. C. I. 1. 3. 41 (11), a. D. 528 τῶν τε εὐαγῶν ξενώνων καὶ νοσοκομείων κτλ. 'the pious hostelries, hospitals,' &c.; Justinian, Nov. 60, p. 388. (4, 5) The (vyooτarns (spathar Phil. 7364, inferior Takt. Usp. 127) examined and weighed the nomismata which came into the treasury. 1 Cont. Th. 44717. Cp. Sig. 103, 112, 122, 298-9, 345, &c., &c. See also Mél. 208 Erepavw ß' κανδ' και άνοτ. Σικελ', saec. ix ; 223 β' σπαθαρ' κανδ' και ανοταρ' Πελοπον', saec. xi ; 236 Λεοντι υπάτω και ανοταρ Χαλδίας saec. viii-ix. There was 9e. g. those of Sampson, Theophilus, Eubulus, Narses, St. Irene. 2 ξενοδοχείον at Nicaea, cp. Panchenko, ix. 352 Μανουὴλ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ kni έevodóxw Nikaías (see Schlumberger, Sig. 381, Mél. 300); at Lopadion in Bithynia (Sig. 381), &c., &c. Cp. Panchenko, ix. 387-9. See also below under the Great Curator. Cp. the constitution in C. Th. 12. 7. Julian refers to ζυγοσταταί in the various cities (ib. 2: quem sermo graecus appellat per singulas civitates constitui zygostaten), who decided if there was any dispute de qualitate solidorum. The μεтρητaí had similar duties connected with weights and measures.1 (8, 9) πρωτοκαγκελλάριος and καγκελλάριοι. (10) ὁ δομέστικος τῆς θυμέλης (ὁ ἄρχων τῆς θ. Cer. 382, had for his province expenditure on public amusements. We may regard him as the successor of the tribunus voluptatum of the fifth century (C. Th. 15.7.13). For Ovμéλŋ in this technical sense cp. the edicts of A. D. 426, C. Th. 8. 7. 21, 22 (actuarios thymelae et equorum currulium) ; Justinian's edict πеρì тŵv vпáтшv, addressed to the comes s. largitionum, Νου. 81, p. 468 τὰς ἐπὶ τῆς σκηνῆς τε καὶ θυμέλης ἡδυπαθείας. There seems to have been a theatrical treasury controlled by the Prefect of the City in the sixth century (tỷ dearpaλíą, Nov. 84, p. 480). (6) ὁ χαρτουλάριος τοῦ βεστιαρίου. In the fifth century (as stated above) the vestiarium sacrum was a scrinium in the officium of the comes s. larg., and its chief was, as usual, entitled primicerius. The officials at the head of the department were in the East the magistri lineae vestis (Not. Dig., Or. xiii. 14), in the West the comes vestiarii (ib., Occ. xi. 5). We may conjecture that the elevation of the vestiarium into an independent office, under a chartularius, was coincident with the transformation of the s. largitiones into the yevikóv, was in fact part of that transformation. But when the vestiarium branched off from the fisc, the new office was increased in compass. In fact, three of the scrinia, which used to be under the comes s. larg., namely scr. vest. s., scr. argenti, and scr. a miliarensibus, were combined to form a new office which was called the βεστιάριον. The minting departments of the argentum and a miliarensibus are represented in the new officium by the ǎpxwv TÊS χαραγῆς. The vestiarium or public Wardrobe must be carefully distinguished from the Emperor's private Wardrobe, the sacra vestis, over which a comes s. vestis (who was a cubicularius) presided (see C. Th. xi. 18. 1 with note of Godofredus). These two wardrobes remained distinct in later times, though they have been confounded by Schlumberger (in his Sigillographie) and by other writers. The comes s. vestis, who was under the control of the praepositus s. cub., is 1 Cp. Justinian, Nov. 152. 15, p. 282. The μérpa and oraμá supplied by Praet. Praef. and Com. larg. are to be kept in the most holy church of each city. For a Snμóσios juzoσTari. in Egypt A.D. 609 see B. G. U. iii. 837. 18. represented in the ninth century by the Tрwroßeσriápios (an office confined to eunuchs), and his wardrobe is distinguished as rò oikelakòv βασιλικὸν βεστιάριον (περὶ ταξ. 4651, 11, 478) from the wardrobe of the Chartularius (τὸ βεστ. or τὸ βασιλικὸν βεστ. Cer. 672, 67613).1 For the sphere of the public vestiarium cp. C. Th. vii. 6 de militari veste, and xi. 18 de vestibus holoveris et auratis. Duties connected with the equipment of ships seem to have been attached to the department in later times (cp. ¿§aprioτýs below, and Cer. 672 and 676).2 Two seals, which seem to belong to our period (ninth century), are published by Schlumberger3 (Sig. 603) Aeovтi paylσTPW KAι ETTI TOV βεστιαριου το Σκληρω, and Μιχαηλ υπατω σιλεντιαρίω και χαρτουλαριω του βασιλικου βεστιαριου. Schlumberger suggests the ascription of the former to Leo Skleros, who became Stratêgos of the Peloponnesus in A. D. 811. Another of the same period is published by Panchenko, ix. 364, πατ[ρικιω] πρωτοσπαθαρίω) και [χαρ]τουλ(αριω) του) βασιλικου) [β]εστιαρ (ιου). (1) This secretum has βασιλικοὶ νοτάριοι τοῦ σεκρέτου like that of the sakellion, from which it otherwise differs. These notaries (spathars, Phil. 735,2 ; inferior Takt. Usp. 127 ô vor. Toô Berr.) are mentioned, Cer. 594, and 694. Cp. seal of Comnenian (?) age in Panchenko, xiii. 101 Λέων ἀσηκ[ρή]τι[ς] νοτάριος) τοῦ) [βασιλικού) β]ε[σ]τηαρ[ίου. (2, 3) We may conjecture that the occurrence of a Kévτaρxos (Ô K. TOû BEσTιapíov Phil. 73810) is due to the circumstance that the supply of military uniforms was an important department of this office. But we have no evidence for his duties or those of the λεγατάριος. (4) The ǎpxwv τîs xapayĥs was chief of the mint (at all events for silver and bronze, see above). xapayń is regularly used for moneta. Philotheos elsewhere mentions & Xpvrоenτýs (auricoctor) 7364, 7892, who also appears in Takt. Usp. 127. Perhaps he belonged to the οἰκειακὸν βεστιάριον. (5, 6) ἐξαρτιστής. χαρτουλάριος. The juxtaposition suggests that this It is not clear which wardrobe is meant in Constantine, Them. 15, where it is said that ἀργυρᾶ μινσούρια (dishes) ανάγλυφα κεῖται ἐν τῷ βασ. βεστ. For the private wardrobe see below D, II (2). 2 In the eleventh century the vestiarium (Tò σekpétov toû ß.) seems to have dealt with vacantia : Alex. Comnenus, Nov. xx. 348-9. 3 Schlumberger groups the officials of the public and the private wardrobes, and also the BeσTýropes, under the same heading. 4 Script. Incert. 336 (Leo Gramm. ed. Bonn). |