Basilios 121

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM IX
Dates859 (tpq) / 867 (taq)
PmbZ No.951
Variant NamesBasileios
TitlesPraktor (office)
Textual SourcesPhotius, Epistulae, ed. B. Laourdas and L. G. Westerink, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1983-85) (letters)

Basilios 121 was a praktor (a collector of taxes); addressee of a letter from the patriarch Photius (Photios 1), probably written between 859 and 867; Basilios 121 is accused of bringing a pyre of evils (κακῶν πυρὰν) on his homeland (πατρίς): Photius, Ep. 83 (I 123 Laourdas-Westerink) (addressed Βασιλείῳ πράκτορι).

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