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DEXIPPUS, PUBLIUS HERENNIUS (c. A.D. 210-273) , See also:Greek historian, statesman and See also:general, was an hereditary See also:priest of the Eleusinian See also:family of the Kerykes, and held the offices of See also:archon basileus and eponymus in See also:Athens. When the See also:Heruli overran See also:Greece and captured Athens (269), Dexippus showed See also:great See also:personal courage and revived the spirit of patriotism among his degenerate See also:fellow-countrymen. A statue was set up in his See also:honour, the See also:base of which, with an inscription recording his services, has been preserved (Corpus Inscrr. Atticarum, iii. No. 716). It is remarkable that the inscription is silent as to his military achievements. See also:Photius (See also:cod. 82) mentions three See also:historical See also:works by Dexippus, of which considerable fragments remain: (I) Ta µer' 'AXEEavbpov, an See also:epitome of a similarly named See also:work by See also:Arrian; (2) ?KVOIK&, a See also:history of the See also:wars of See also:Rome with the Goths (or Scythians) in the 3rd See also:century; (3) Xpovuo tvropia, a See also:chronological history from the earliest times to the See also:emperor See also:Claudius Gothicus (270), frequently referred to by the writers of the Augustan history. The work was continued by See also:Eunapius of See also:Sardis down to 404.

Photius speaks very highly of the See also:

style of Dexippus, whom he places on a level with See also:Thucydides, an See also:opinion by no means confirmed by the fragments (C. W. See also:Muller, F.H.G. iii. 666-687).

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