Bardanes 4 also had the name Anemas; he was a spatharios (τὸν σπαθάριον) in 806, in which year on the orders of the emperor Nikephoros I (Nikephoros 8) he took captive all wanderers and strangers (πάντα προσήλυτον καὶ πάροικον: see Mango and Scott, Theophanes, p. 663, note 1 for comment on this translation of paroikoi); these were then transported to Thrace (where they were expected to provide an annual source of revenue for the state): Theoph. AM 6299 (Βαρδάνιον τὸν σπαθάριον, τὸ ἐπίκλην Ἀνεμᾶν). On this action, cf. Treadgold, Revival, pp. 149-50. On the name Anemas, see Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, pp. 158, 180, 208 (a frequent name later, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries), 216, 217. The name Bardanios (from the Armenian Vardan) is evidence of Armenian origins. See C. Toumanoff, "Caucasia and Byzantium", in Traditio 27 (1971), p. 150; Rochow, Theophanes, p. 287.

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