Stelle ...; (Historia, F 188 (ed. Banchich, p. 126)) [5087]

Basic Information

Keywords	Ethnonym: Heruli, [wurzel: Herul] Ethnonym: Romani, [wurzel: roman]
ID	5087
Text	Historia (540 - 565) Peter the Patrician
Quotation
Translation	There was a certain andonnoballus, who fled from the Heruli to the Romans. and he had words with Bibulus the sovereign of the romans, for he [Bibulus] was exhorting him to give himself to the emperor. and he [Andonnoballus] was calling him a despot-loving slave and less than a belly and saying that he traded freedom for food and dress. and he responded to him, “i am a free man. for i am indeed friend of so great a sovereign and no good thing does he deny to me. But you are well off neither in dress nor food.”
Quotation source	F 188 (ed. Banchich, p. 126)
Temporal Coverage	269 - 269
Associated use case(s)	Identical Strangers: The history of the Heruli between the 3rd and the 5th century: Salvatore Liccardo
Comment	This is a dialogue between Andonnoballus and Bibulus, two Heruli, which, echoing the verbal exchange between Arminius and his brother Flavus found in the Annales of Tacitus, focuses on the pros and cons of submitting to the Romans.