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Scholae. Scholae ( Greek: Σχολαί) is a Latin word, literally meaning "schools" (from the singular schola, school or group) that was used in the Late Roman Empire to signify a unit of Imperial Guards. The unit survived in the Byzantine Empire until the 12th century. Michel Rouche succinctly traced the word's development, especially in the ...
Byzantine text-type. In the textual criticism of the New Testament, the Byzantine text-type (also called Majority Text, Traditional Text, Ecclesiastical Text, Constantinopolitan Text, Antiocheian Text, or Syrian Text) is one of the main text types. It is the form found in the largest number of surviving manuscripts of the Greek New Testament.
The Scholae Palatinae ( lit. 'Palatine Schools'; Greek: Σχολαί, romanized : Scholai) were an elite military imperial guard unit, usually ascribed to the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great as a replacement for the equites singulares Augusti, the cavalry arm of the Praetorian Guard.
The labarum ( Greek: λάβαρον or λάβουρον [2]) was a vexillum (military standard) that displayed the "Chi-Rho" symbol ☧, a christogram formed from the first two Greek letters of the word "Christ" ( Greek: ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ, or Χριστός) – Chi (χ) and Rho (ρ). [3] It was first used by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
As for the text itself, experts in the study got it about 25% right on the first pass; not exactly stellar, though of course text restoration is not meant to be an afternoon lark but a long-term ...
Ancient Greek. The Akanthos curse tablet is a double-sided text written in Ancient Greek that was discovered at the necropolis of Akanthos, a city in Macedonia located on the north-east of the Chalcidice peninsula. It was made public in 1993, along with three more tablets from Akanthos, at the 14th conference held by the Linguistics Department ...
The territorial term "despotate" itself (in Greek δεσποτᾶτον, despotaton) was first used in contemporary sources for Epirus only from the 14th century on, e.g. in the Chronicle of the Morea, in the history of John Kantakouzenos, the hagiography of St. Niphon, or the Chronicle of the Tocco, where the inhabitants of the Despotate are ...
This is a list of loanwords of Latin origin which entered the Greek language during the Byzantine era. Augousta, honorific term for the Empress; Chartoularios tou kanikleiou, one of the most senior offices in the Byzantine imperial chancery; Kouropalates, a court title; Domestikos, a civil, ecclesiastic and military office