Nasar 1 was strategos of the Boukellarioi (Νάσαρ τῶν Βουκελλαρίων sc. στρατηλάτης); he and Petronas 5 ambushed an Arab army under Amr 2 as it withdrew after an incursion into Roman territory; they defeated it at a place called Lalakaon and Amr 2 was killed during the flight; back in Constantinople the Roman commanders celebrated their victory in the Hippodrome: Leo Gramm. 238-239, Georg. Mon. Cont. 825, Ps.-Symeon 666, cf. Theoph. Cont. IV, p. 181 (he is the unnamed strategos of the Boukellarioi who served under Petronas 5 at the battle of Poson (Lalakaon). On Lalakaon, see Ramsay, Historical Geography, p. 77, Vasiliev, Byzance et les Arabes I, 251ff., Ostrogorsky, History, p. 227. The date was perhaps 863, after the baptism of the Bulgar ruler Boris 1. On the name, probably the Arabic name Nasir or Nasr, see Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, p. 201.

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