Anonymus 51 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX |
| Dates | 867 (taq) / 842 (tpq) |
| Locations | Constantinople |
| Titles | Kombinographos of the Green faction (office); Protonotarios, Dromos (office) |
| Textual Sources | Pseudo-Symeon, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838), pp. 603-760 (history); Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838) (history); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Anonymus 51 was protonotarios of the dromos in the reign of Michael III (Michael 11), he also had a function at the chariot races as kombinographos of the Green faction; according to an anecdote told to illustrate the decadence of Michael 11, he was severely chided once by the emperor at a vital moment of the racing for interrupting proceedings with an urgent message from the domestikos of the Scholai (Anonymus 51) about a dangerous Arab incursion under Amr 2 close to the military base at Malagina: Theoph. Cont. IV 36 (pp. 198-199), Ps.-Symeon 660, Zon. XVI 4. 5-8 (ἐν τούτῳ δὲ γράμματα τῷ πρωτονοταρίῳ τοῦ δρόμου παρά του πεφθακότος ἄρτι ἐνεχειρίσθησαν, ... ὁ γοῦν πρωτονοτάριος σκυθρωπάσας ἐπὶ τῇ ἀγγελίᾳ προσῆλθε τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ ταῦτα ἐδίδασκε καὶ ὑπεδείκνυ τὰ γράμματα). Cf. also Anonymus 52 and Anonymus 53. The date is uncertain.
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